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The 1290s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which | 1290, and ended on December 31, 1299. Significant people |
at most 3% of the world's population by this time. The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set a goal for universal access to basic sanitation by 2030. The United Nations has made it a goal that Internet access and literacy will be universal by 2030. The World Bank has called for all countries to implement univer... | UK's High Speed 2 rail link is scheduled to be completed. A Jubilee will be held in the Catholic Church, in this case 2000 years after the traditional year of Jesus' death and resurrection. 2034 As of 2011, Switzerland is scheduled to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants. The European Space Agency may launch ... |
350, to December 31, 359. Significant people Constantius II, | January 1, 350, to December 31, 359. Significant people Constantius II, Roman |
370s decade ran | decade ran from January |
leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Iulianus (or, less frequently, year 1109 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 356 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno... | Roman Empire, and ordering the banishment once again of the anti-Arian patriarch of Alexandria, Athanasius. He tries to have him arrested during a vigil service, but Athanasius flees to the Nitrian desert in Upper Egypt. The veneration of non-Christian images is banned in the Roman Empire. Siege of Autun: Julian receiv... |
1157 Hama, 1170 and 1202 Syria events. The palace guards massacre the civil officials at the Korean court of Goryeo and place Myeongjong as new ruler on the throne of the Goryeo Dynasty. By topic Folklore The Welsh prince Madoc (son of King Owain ap Gruffudd of Gwynedd) sails to North America, in his ship the Gwennan G... | and Irish forces seize the city of Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, king of Dublin, into exile. Africa Fes in the Almohad Caliphate (modern Morocco) becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Asia June 29 – 1170 Syria earthquake: One of the largest e... |
Lemuel bind Nephi. The compass stops working, and the ship is caught in a terrible storm. At the pleading of their wives, and for fear of sinking, Laman and Lemuel release Nephi. Nephi prays, and the storm stops. Many days later, they arrive in the promised land, on the American continent. In the promised land Upon arr... | continue to rebel. Lehi sends his sons back to Jerusalem to retrieve the brass plates, a record similar to the Old Testament, which was kept by Laban, a powerful leader in Jerusalem. Nephi and his brothers return and become frustrated after two failed attempts, where Laban tries to steal Lehi's property and murder his ... |
Nephi himself and other ancient prophets, such as Isaiah. Narrative Lehi's last counsel Second Nephi begins with the prophecies of Lehi concerning the future of his seed, and speaks to his posterity. As Lehi is old and will soon die, he wishes to bestow blessings upon his children. Lehi relates a vision whereby he knew... | be no resurrection, and that because of Christ all men will be resurrected with their spirit being freed from either paradise or torment and their body raised from the grave, and then they are judged according to their works in life. Jacob continues by teaching about the various sins, such as lying, murdering, whoredom... |
unto me." (9:14) "Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are. I was with the Father from the beginning. I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and in me hath the Father glorified his name." (9:15) After three days, the darkness clears. It is the ti... | wo, wo unto this people; wo unto the inhabitants of the whole earth except that they shall repent; for the devil laugheth, and his angels rejoice, because of the slain fair sons and daughters of my people; and it is because of their iniquities and abominations that they are fallen!" (3 Nephi 9:1-2) The voice then lists... |
1879 edition and "Fourth Nephi" in the 1920 edition of Book of Mormon. Fourth Nephi is among the shorter books in the Book of Mormon, containing only a single chapter, but it covers almost three centuries of the history of the Nephites and the Lamanites (ca AD 35 to 321). The book describes the period of time immediate... | Disciples of Jesus Christ, usually referred to as Fourth Nephi or 4 Nephi ( ), is one of the fifteen books that make up the Book of Mormon. This book was first called "IV Nephi" in the 1879 edition and "Fourth Nephi" in the 1920 edition of Book of Mormon. Fourth Nephi is among the shorter books in the Book of Mormon, c... |
first mention is made of Thalwil, Switzerland, which is derived from Tellewilare, and indicates the early medieval origins of Thalwil as an Alemannic farmstead. Henry I revolts against his father King Robert II (the Pious) in a civil war over power and property. Robert's army is defeated, and he retreats to Beaugency. ... | As the army is exhausted from the heat and the lack of supplies, the retreat soon turns into a flight in panic. Romanos returns to Constantinople in humiliation but his generals on the eastern frontier manage to salvage the situation: a Fatimid attack on Maraqiya is repulsed, and Azaz itself is captured in December aft... |
Perseids, offering a view of the occupation of the Peloponnesus that contains both fantastic and possibly historical elements. The subsequent proto-historic period, combining both legend and historical fragments, offers the first credible history. Between the 8th and 7th centuries BC the Spartans experienced a period o... | not have voting or political rights. The Spartan poet Tyrtaios refers to Helots being allowed to marry and retaining 50% of the fruits of their labor. They also seem to have been allowed to practice religious rites and, according to Thucydides, own a limited amount of personal property. Initially, helots couldn't be fr... |
happen, generated either by Tramontane blowing from the Alps or by Bora-like winds from the north. Due to its geographic location surrounded by mountains on 3 sides, Milan is among the least windy cities in Europe. Administration Municipal government The legislative body of the Italian is the City Council (Consiglio Co... | Milano) of the urban area have been protected as regional parks. West of the city, the Parco delle Cave (Sand pit park) has been established on a neglected site where gravel and sand used to be extracted, featuring artificial lakes and woods. Demographics The official estimated population of the City of Milan was 1,378... |
New York, a town in Cayuga County Venice, Ohio, former name of Ross, a census-designated place in Butler County Venice, Utah, an unincorporated community in Sevier County Other places Venice, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet in Lac La Biche County Venise, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département, in France Klein-Venedig (Lit... | Zimbabwe, a village in the province of Mashonaland West Place nicknames "Brazilian Venice", nickname for Recife, Brazil The Green Venice or Marais Poitevin, a large area of marshland in western France "Venice of America", nickname for Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. Venice of Cieszyn, part of the Old Town of Cieszyn, Po... |
found a niche role as second songwriter. The band found they needed to fill an extra ten minutes, and Lambert encouraged Townshend to write a longer piece, "A Quick One, While He's Away". The suite of song fragments is about a girl who has an affair while her lover is away, but is ultimately forgiven. The album was tit... | at The Summit Arena, and was supported by Toots and the Maytals. On 6 December 1975, the Who set the record for largest indoor concert at the Pontiac Silverdome, attended by 78,000. On 31 May 1976, they played a second concert at the Valley which was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's loudest concert... |
hot plasma. Due to the high temperature, the plasma cannot be in direct contact with any solid material, so it has to be located in a vacuum. Also, high temperatures imply high pressures. The plasma tends to expand immediately and some force is necessary to act against it. This force can take one of three forms: gravit... | process is continued until some of their energy is produced by fusing lighter elements to iron. As iron has one of the highest binding energies, reactions producing heavier elements are generally endothermic. Therefore significant amounts of heavier elements are not formed during stable periods of massive star evolutio... |
in the French cartel. It was first used between German railway companies in 1846 to describe tariff- and technical standardization efforts. The first time the word was referred to describe a kind of restriction of competition was by the Austro-Hungarian political scientist Lorenz von Stein, who wrote on tariff cartels:... | was pioneered in 1883 by the Austrian economist Friedrich Kleinwächter and in its early stages was developed mainly by German-speaking scholars. These scholars tended to regard cartels as an acceptable part of the economy. At the same time, American lawyers increasingly turned against trade restrictions, including all ... |
solemnization of marriage, spousal and child support, and property division). The marital status of Canadians also varies by province/territory: in 2011, 46.4% of the population aged 15 and over was legally married; ranging from the lowest percentage of married people being in Nunavut (29.7%), Northwest Territories (35... | The longitudinal study collected survey data before marriage and 10 months into marriage, with findings suggesting those who cohabit before engagement are at greater risk for poor marital outcomes than those who cohabit only after engagement or at marriage. A follow-up survey by the researches of over 1,000 married men... |
explored the area of Mobile Bay and beyond in 1540, finding the area inhabited by indigenous Mississippian culture people. During this expedition his forces destroyed the fortified town of Mauvila, also spelled Maubila, from which the name Mobile was later derived. It was a town of the paramount Chief Tuscaloosa, locat... | population surged as both black and white migrants moved there for work. Growth has been rapid since then. Natural disasters in the area The city has endured several devastating hurricanes in its history, the most recent being Hurricane Frederic in 1979 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Areas of low elevation, including t... |
the International Civil Aviation Organization in the 1980s, the convention governing INMARSAT was amended to include improvements in aeronautical communications, notably for public safety. The first Director General was appointed in January 1980 and operations began in 1982. Olof Lundberg, who had previously managed an... | General communications History INMARSAT The International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) was established under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization by the Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization, signed at London on 3 September 1976 and entered into force on 16 Jul... |
a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. Of biblical origin, the term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of years have passed. Religious usage The Jubilee ( yovel) year (every 50... | are Biblical commandments concerning ownership of land and slaves. The laws concerning the Sabbatical year are still observed by many religious Jews in the State of Israel, while the Jubilee has not been observed for many centuries. According to the Hebrew Bible, every seventh year, farmers in the land of Israel are co... |
of his. Chen fought another two female challengers in separate battles and won. Cho Chiyo: An okonomiyaki turned Cantonese chef from Kobe who helped feed those suffering hardship after the city was devastated by the Great Hanshin Earthquake. Kaga invited her to battle in recognition of her bravery and so that she could... | after its founding in 1986, its second soon thereafter and a third in 1996, which it has maintained since. It was also ranked 8th in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2018. Alain Passard (One win and one draw in three battles): Arpège's owner and head chef. He represented France in the 1997 Iron Chef World Cup in Kyot... |
and tracks to wharves and tracks in San Francisco. Before the CPRR was completed, developers were building other feeder railroads like the Virginia and Truckee Railroad to the Comstock Lode diggings in Virginia City, Nevada, and several different extensions in California and Nevada to reach other cities there. Some of ... | the work resulted in the work being split into two divisions, with L.M. Clement taking the upper division from Blue Cañon to Truckee and Cadwalader taking the lower division from Truckee to the Nevada border. Other assistant engineers were assigned to specific tasks such as building a bridge, tunnel or trestle which wa... |
Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire, persisted particularly in the areas of Gallia Narbonensis that developed into Occitania, Gallia Cisalpina and to a lesser degree, Aquitania. The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead. Roman life,... | 800 cities were destroyed during the Gallic Wars. The entire population of the city of Avaricum (Bourges) (40,000 in all) were slaughtered. Before Julius Caesar's campaign against the Helvetii (present-day Switzerland), the Helvetians had numbered 263,000, but afterwards only 100,000 remained, most of whom Caesar took ... |
of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars The Congress of the Council of Europe. Legislatures Presidential and semi-presidential systems In the mid-1770s, to emphasize each one's status as a State (polity) in its own right, the term was chosen by the British colonies that became the United States of America. The term has sin... | Paris (1856), which ended the Crimean War The Congress of Troppau (1820) The Congress of Tucumán (1816) The Congress of Utrecht (1712–1713) The Congress of Verona (1822) The Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which settled the shape of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars The Congress of the Council of Europe. Legislatures Pres... |
when it bought Chapters. In June 2014, Reisman said the company was headed into a new phase, selling a much higher percentage of non-book items. In late 2017, it was announced that it would expand to the United States, with its first location opening in The Mall at Short Hills in October 2018. Operations The company se... | Toronto, Ontario and employed more than 7,000 people throughout Canada. After a series of mergers and acquisitions in the Canadian bookstore industry, Indigo stands as Canada's last remaining national bookstore chain. In late 2017, announcements were made to expand to the United States, starting with a location in The ... |
terms for , but many recent textbooks use the term "magnetic field" to describe as well as or in place of . There are many alternative names for both (see sidebar). The B-field The magnetic field vector at any point can be defined as the vector that, when used in the Lorentz force law, correctly predicts the force on a... | independent of the free currents and picks out the "magnetic charges" within that closed surface: which does not depend on the free currents. The -field, therefore, can be separated into two independent parts: where is the applied magnetic field due only to the free currents and is the demagnetizing field due only to t... |
to July 5, 1922, in his role as High Commissioner for Refugees for the League of Nations. By 1942, they were honoured by governments in 52 countries. In 1933, the Nansen arrangement was broadened to also include Armenian, Assyrian, and Turkish refugees. Approximately 450,000 Nansen passports were provided to stateless ... | event for the Nansen passport was the 1921 announcement by the new government of the Soviet Union revoking the citizenship of Russians living abroad, including some 800,000 refugees from the Russian civil war. The first Nansen passports were issued following an international agreement reached at the Intergovernmental C... |
many layers of stones whose size diminishes with increasing height: mostly, lower layers consist of rubble masonry, while upper layers tend to be of ashlar masonry); an inner layer, made of smaller stones (to form a corbelled dome of the bullet-shaped tholos type, and where ashlar masonry is used more frequently); and ... | nuraghe (, ; plural: Logudorese Sardinian , Campidanese Sardinian , Italian ), or also nurhag in English, is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 B.C. Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture known as the N... |
nuraghe Cabu Abbas Cagliari Cala Domestica Campu Luntanu Carbonia Castelsardo Coddu Vecchiu, Giants Tomb Cornus Dolianova Domu de Orgia Domu s Orku Friarosu Fonte e Mola Funtana Cuverta Genna Maria Genna Salixi Genoni Gergei Gesturi Golgo Gonnostramatza Iglesias Is Concias Is Paras, nuraghe Izzana, nuraghe Kukkuru Nura... | Carbonia Castelsardo Coddu Vecchiu, Giants Tomb Cornus Dolianova Domu de Orgia Domu s Orku Friarosu Fonte e Mola Funtana Cuverta Genna Maria Genna Salixi Genoni Gergei Gesturi Golgo Gonnostramatza Iglesias Is Concias Is Paras, nuraghe Izzana, nuraghe Kukkuru Nuraxi Laconi Li Muri Losa, nuraghe Lugherras, nuraghe Macome... |
Christianity, whose followers believed that Jesus was a distinct and separate being from God the Father, both subordinate to and created by Him. This contrasted Nicene Christianity, whose followers believe that God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are three persons of one being (consubstantiality). While the theo... | militum. The Franks of Tournai came to dominate their neighbours, initially aided by the association with Aegidius. The death of Flavius Aetius in 454 led to the decline of imperial power in the Gaul; leaving the Visigoths and the Burgundians competing for predominance in the area. The part of Gaul still under Roman co... |
of a sleek build and had a tall gaff rig, which gave the vessel sufficient speed to make long-distance trips out to the fishing grounds in the ocean. They were also sufficiently robust to be able to tow large trawls in deep water. The great trawling fleet that built up at Brixham earned the village the title of 'Mother... | were over 3,000 fishing trawlers in commission in Britain, with almost 1,000 at Grimsby. These trawlers were sold to fishers around Europe, including from the Netherlands and Scandinavia. Twelve trawlers went on to form the nucleus of the German fishing fleet. The earliest steam-powered fishing boats first appeared in ... |
Park Mall Orange Park (New Jersey), a county park in Orange, New Jersey See also Orange | Orange Park (New Jersey), a county park in Orange, New Jersey See also Orange Park Acres, |
Riga (now in Latvia), with Friedrich Kohlrausch in Würzburg, Germany, with Ludwig Boltzmann in Graz, Austria, and with van 't Hoff in Amsterdam. In 1889, Arrhenius explained the fact that most reactions require added heat energy to proceed by formulating the concept of activation energy, an energy barrier that must be ... | of physics (with much opposition) in 1895, and rector in 1896. Nobel Prizes About 1900, Arrhenius became involved in setting up the Nobel Institutes and the Nobel Prizes. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1901. For the rest of his life, he would be a member of the Nobel Committee on Ph... |
2021, but due to the pandemic was mostly held online. Currently, UNCTAD has 195 member states and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. UNCTAD has 400 staff members and a bi-annual (2010–2011) regular budget of $138 million in core expenditures and $72 million in extra-budgetary technical assistance funds. It is a m... | Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela. List D (24 members): Albania, Az... |
Mercury. Grissom was intrigued by the program, but knew that competition for the final spots would be fierce. Grissom passed the initial screening in Washington, D.C., and was among the thirty-nine candidates sent to the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Aeromedical Laboratory of the Wright Air Develo... | problem due to the absence of ragweed pollen in space. On April 13, 1959, Grissom received official notification that he had been selected as one of the seven Project Mercury astronauts. Grissom and the six other men, after taking a leave of absence from their respective branches of the military service, reported to th... |
that controlled the mechanism. This added to the time constraint of the spacewalk and could have threatened the lives of both men if McDivitt had been unable to get the hatch latched, as they could not re-enter the atmosphere with an unsealed hatch. When they returned to Earth, the two astronauts found that they were n... | 17, 1962. Like their predecessors, the Mercury Seven, each of the new astronauts was assigned an area of specialization within the manned space program: in White's case, flight control systems. Gemini 4 White was selected to be the pilot of Gemini 4, with McDivitt as his command pilot. The Chief of the Astronaut Office... |
temporarily worked at the base until October 1957, when he attended flight school at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. He started his training by flying the T-28 and the T-34. He was posted to Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, from August 1958 to February 1959 as a part of Advanced Training Unit 212. In Kingsvil... | be selected for a mission. Joining Command Pilot Grissom and Senior Pilot White, he replaced the injured Donn F. Eisele in the third-ranked pilot position. Eisele required surgery for a dislocated shoulder, which he sustained aboard the KC-135 weightlessness training aircraft. He was reassigned to a second Apollo crew,... |
is associated with two missions: Apollo 1, scheduled to be the first crewed Apollo flight, | Apollo 1, scheduled to be the first crewed Apollo flight, but the crew was killed on the launch pad Apollo 5, the first test |
student-run engineering-based publications in the US East Coast Music Association, that hosts the East Coast Music Awards, an annual awards ceremony in Canada See also ECMAScript, a scripting language whose best-known dialect | in the US East Coast Music Association, that hosts the East Coast Music Awards, an annual awards ceremony in Canada See |
potential power and influence of counter revolutionary activity in the Lyon region. The departmental capitals throughout its history are as follows: Feurs 1793–1795 Montbrison 1795–1855 Saint-Étienne since 1855 Geography Loire is part of the current administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the... | and Saône-et-Loire. The river Loire traverses the department from south to north. The Loire department is split into three arrondissements: Arrondissement of Montbrison Arrondissement of Roanne Arrondissement of Saint-Étienne Parts of the department belong to Parc naturel régional Livradois-Forez. Demographics The inha... |
and efficient yields can be obtained by preorganizing the components utilizing hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, covalent bonds, or coulombic interactions. The three most common strategies to synthesize rotaxane are "capping", "clipping", and "slipping", though others do exist. Recently, Leigh a... | electronics as logic molecular switching elements and as molecular shuttles. These molecular machines are usually based on the movement of the macrocycle on the dumbbell. The macrocycle can rotate around the axis of the dumbbell like a wheel and axle or it can slide along its axis from one site to another. Controlling ... |
a regime where quantum mechanics effects are important. In contrast to the case in conventional electronic components, where electrons can be filled in or drawn out more or less like a continuous flow of electric charge, the transfer of a single electron alters the system significantly. The significant amount of energy... | used as an electronic barrier to be bridged by molecules. One of the biggest hindrances for single-molecule electronics to be commercially exploited is the lack of means to connect a molecular sized circuit to bulk electrodes in a way that gives reproducible results. Also problematic is that some measurements on single... |
the battle many Crusaders are killed but the Seljuk Turks are forced to flee and abandon their tents and treasure after being surprised by the arrival of a second Crusader army. October 21 – Siege of Antioch: The Crusaders arrive outside the city and begin the siege. They can not impose a complete blockade on Antioch. ... | Crusade Spring – The Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon attack the Byzantine imperial palace at Blachernae. Norman forces led by Bohemond I join the Crusaders – he is not welcome in Constantinople because his father, Robert Guiscard, has invaded Illyria (territory belonging to the Byzantine Empire), and captured the c... |
Ian Brown (at the time the bassist) and guitarist John Squire, who knew each other from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, formed a short-lived Clash-inspired band called The Patrol in 1980 along with singer/guitarist Andy Couzens and drummer Simon Wolstencroft. They played several gigs in 1980 and recorded a demo tap... | Squire announced his departure on 1 April 1996, releasing a statement saying it was: "the inevitable conclusion to the gradual social and musical separation that we have undergone in the past few years". Simply Red's 1987/88 tour guitarist Aziz Ibrahim, a former classmate of Pete Garner's at Burnage High School, was re... |
students' favourite The Basement, where, known as DJ Quentox, he began laying the base for Brighton's hip-hop scene. 1985–1995: The Housemartins to The Mighty Dub Katz In 1985, Heaton formed a guitar band called the Housemartins. Their bassist left on the eve of their first national tour, so Cook agreed to move to Hull... | Beat" and "Gene by Gene" from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years. Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album, Why Try Harder, was released on 19 June 2006. It comprises 18 tracks, including ten Top 40 singles, a couple of Number Ones and two new tracks, "Champion So... |
second American to be promoted to a five-star rank, as William Leahy was promoted to fleet admiral the previous day. Throughout the remainder of World War II, Marshall coordinated Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific. He was characterized as the organizer of Allied victory by Winston Churchill. Time magazine nam... | of getting the full amount and told Roosevelt "you have got to do something and you've got to do it today". Marshall's advocacy worked and he got "all he wanted and more". In 1941, Marshall became a Freemason, raised "at sight" by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia. ("At sight" is the proce... |
animals, fertilization begins the process of embryonic development with the creation of a zygote, a single cell resulting from the fusion of gametes (e.g. egg and sperm). The development of a zygote into a multicellular embryo proceeds through a series of recognizable stages, often divided into cleavage, blastula, gast... | mid-14c., the word embryon derives from Medieval Latin embryo, itself from Greek (embruon), lit. "young one", which is the neuter of (embruos), lit. "growing in", from ἐν (en), "in" and βρύω (bruō), "swell, be full"; the proper Latinized form of the Greek term would be embryum. Development Animal embryos In animals, fe... |
January 1, 210, to December 31, | to December 31, 219. |
220, to December 31, 229. | 1, 220, to December 31, 229. |
December 31, 239. Significant | from January 1, 230, to December 31, |
January 1, 240, | ran from January 1, 240, |
'Aws and the Banu Khazraj became hostile to each other and by the time of Muhammad's Hijrah (emigration) to Medina in 622 CE, they had been fighting for 120 years and were sworn enemies The Banu Nadir and the Banu Qurayza were allied with the 'Aws, while the Banu Qaynuqa sided with the Khazraj. They fought a total of f... | dispute among modern Western historians, many of whom maintain that this "treaty" is possibly a collage of different agreements, oral rather than written, of different dates, and that it is not clear exactly when they were made. Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement—whet... |
and has altered the names of such bodies over time. During these processes the geographical and traditional historic boundaries of Yorkshire outside of the local government layer has remained unchanged. Regional For statistical purposes, Yorkshire is divided, as of 2018, between three regions of England. Most of the co... | nearly fifty years of use, was recognised by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008. Yorkshire Day, held annually on 1 August, is a celebration of the general culture of Yorkshire, ranging from its history to its dialect. Yorkshire is covered by different Government Office Regions. Most of the county falls within Yorkshire... |
refer to: Bob Welch (baseball) (1956–2014), American baseball pitcher Bob Welch (author) (born c. 1955), American author and newspaper columnist Bob Welch (musician) | (1956–2014), American baseball pitcher Bob Welch (author) (born c. 1955), American author and newspaper columnist Bob Welch (musician) (1945–2012), American musician |
left the band in 1998 because of her fear of flying and to be with her family in the UK, thus making the band now a foursome. A subsequent fourth solo album, entitled Gift of Screws, was recorded between 1995–2001 and presented to Warner Bros./Reprise for release. Executives at the label managed to persuade Buckingham ... | became the face of Fleetwood Mac during its most commercially successful period, highlighted by the multi-platinum album Rumours, which sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Though highly successful, the group experienced almost constant creative and personal conflict, and Buckingham left the band in 1987 to focus on ... |
her to write "You Make Loving Fun", a top-10 hit on the landmark smash Rumours, one of the best-selling albums of all-time. Her biggest hit was "Don't Stop", which reached number three. The Rumours tour also included McVie's "Songbird", a ballad played as the encore of many Fleetwood Mac concerts. By the end of the Rum... | Me", both reaching Billboard's top-20 singles chart. "Over My Head" put Fleetwood Mac on American radio and into the national top 20. In 1976, McVie began an on-the-road affair with the band's lighting director, which inspired her to write "You Make Loving Fun", a top-10 hit on the landmark smash Rumours, one of the be... |
Mac began work on a new studio album, though this time without Christine McVie, leaving Nicks as the sole woman in the band for the first time. After the end of her solo tour, Nicks convened with the other members of the band for recording during 2002. Say You Will was released in April 2003 and met with commercial suc... | for her work with the band Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist. After starting her career as a duo with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham, releasing the album Buckingham Nicks to little success, Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, helping the band to become one of the best-selling music acts of all time with over 12... |
the first time that both oral and written records exist. Like the Kalama period, the Goat Rocks period started with an explosion of dacite tephra, followed by an andesite lava flow, and culminated with the emplacement of a dacite dome. The 1800 eruption probably rivaled the 1980 eruption in size, although it did not re... | large eruption rivaling the 1980 eruption in volume is known to have occurred. Ash and pumice piled northeast of the volcano to a thickness of ; away, the ash was deep. Large pyroclastic flows and mudflows subsequently rushed down St. Helens' west flanks and into the Kalama River drainage system. This 150-year period n... |
technology that acts on data streams ESP Cheat (video games), displaying contextual info such as the health, name and position of other participants (normally hidden from the player). Extended Stack Pointer register in Intel IA-32 (x86/32-bit) assembler Various processors by Espressif Systems, like the ESP32 or the ESP... | ESP, 2000 album by The System "ESP", 2017 song by N.E.R.D. from the album No One Ever Really Dies Television "E.S.P." (UFO), a 1970 episode of UFO E.S.P. (TV series), a horror Philippine drama by GMA Network Technology Electric submersible pump, an artificial lift system that electrically drives multiple centrifugal st... |
vied with each other in deeds of daring to rescue the crumbled and imprisoned." On the heels of the explosion came fires, which burned until the entire northern part of Mobile lay in smoking ruins. A huge hole where the warehouse once stood remained for many years, a reminder of the disaster. The exact cause of the mag... | of cotton, horses, men, women, and children co-mingled and mangled into one immense mass". He continued: "The heart stood still, and the stoutest cheek paled as this rain of death fell from the sky and crash after crash foretold a more fearful fate yet impending ... old and young, soldier and citizen vied with each oth... |
assembly (MCAs) sit. This assembly is headed by a Governor. Each county is also represented in the Senate of Kenya by a senator. Additionally, a Women's Representative is elected from each county to the Parliament of Kenya to represent women's interests. Counties replaced provinces as the second-level division after th... | subregions (), which have statistical and organizational functions only. The was also the historic administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary, which included areas of present-day neighbouring countries of Hungary. Its Latin name () is the equivalent of the French . Actual political and administrative role of countie... |
Tughril divides his army into four columns, ordering three to veer off to the north to raid into central and northern Armenia, while he takes the fourth column towards Lake Van. The Seljuk Turks capture and sack the fortress city of Artchesh, after an 8-day siege. Europe Battle of Mortemer: The Normans, led by Duke Wil... | display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire Sultan Tughril leads a large Seljuk army out of Azerbaijan into Armenia, possibly to consolidate his frontier, while providing an incentive to his Turkoman allies in the form of plunder. Tughril divides his army into four columns, order... |
from January 1, 290, to December | 299. Significant people References |
counterfactual definiteness views measuring the position as akin to asking where in a room a person is located, while measuring the momentum is akin to asking whether the person's lap is empty or has something on it. If the person's position has changed by making him or her stand rather than sit, then that person has n... | such example is the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester. These phenomena are not directly germane to the subject under consideration here. Theoretical considerations An interpretation of quantum mechanics can be said to involve the use of counterfactual definiteness if it includes in the statistical population of measurement r... |
himself. Fleetwood was inspired—as he said at the Brits Awards ceremony in 1989—by Cliff Richard, Tony Meehan, drummer of the Shadows, and for the Everly Brothers. With his parents' support, he dropped out of school at 15 and, in 1963, moved to London to pursue a career as a drummer. At first, he stayed with his younge... | out of a decision to leave the group. The band added guitarist Bob Weston and vocalist Dave Walker, formerly of Savoy Brown and the Idle Race. The resulting turmoil, however, negatively affected their next album, Penguin, released in 1973 to poor reviews. Walker was subsequently asked to leave the group, and the next a... |
popularized by Martin Gardner in the September 1958 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. The book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays also contains a detailed analysis of the Soma cube problem. There are 240 distinct solutions of the Soma cube puzzle, excluding rotations and reflections: these are eas... | are mirror images of each other (see Chirality). Thus, 3 + (6 × 4) is 27, which is exactly the number of cells in a 3×3×3 cube. The Soma cube was popularized by Martin Gardner in the September 1958 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. The book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays also contains a detail... |
census branded many ethnic Nepalis as illegal immigrants. Local Lhotshampa leaders responded with anti-government rallies demanding citizenship and attacks against government institutions. In 1989, the Bhutanese government enacted reforms that directly impacted the Lhotshampa. First, it elevated the status of the natio... | wear the clothing of the Ngalong majority. Second, the government removed Nepali as a language of instruction in schools in favor of Dzongkha, the national language. This alienated the Lhotshampa, many of whom knew no Dzongkha at all. Expulsion Since the late 1980s, over 100,000 Lhotshampa have been forced out of Bhuta... |
by the magister militum Ricimer, and then by Ricimer's nephew, the Magister militum Gundobad. After the death of Olybrius on 2 November 472, and an interregnum of nearly four months, Gundobad proclaimed Glycerius as Western Roman Emperor at Ravenna on either 3 or 5 March 473; the Fasti vindobonenses states that it was ... | domesticorum (commander of the palace guard) during the reign of Olybrius, until Olybrius died in November 472. After a four-month interregnum, Glycerius was proclaimed Western Emperor in March 473 by the magister militum (master of soldiers) and power behind the throne Gundobad. Very few of the events of his reign are... |
writer and translator Ludvík Kundera. He belonged to the generation of young Czechs who had had little or no experience of the pre-war democratic Czechoslovak Republic. Their ideology was greatly influenced by the experiences of World War II and the German occupation. Still in his teens, he joined the Communist Party o... | The Farewell Party because of its apparent anti-abortion message. Not only was the publisher wrong about the existence of such a message, Kundera explains, but, "I was delighted with the misunderstanding. I had succeeded as a novelist. I succeeded in maintaining the moral ambiguity of the situation. I had kept faith wi... |
known which peptide or other compound forms on each pin. Further procedures were developed to combine the advantages of both split-mix and parallel synthesis. In the method described by two groups the solid support was enclosed into permeable plastic capsules together with a radiofrequency tag that carried the code of ... | in non-peptide tethered libraries. The method is based on the heat that is evolved in the beads that contain a catalyst when the tethered library immersed into a solution of a substrate. When the beads are examined through an infrared microscope the catalyst containing beads appear as bright spots and can be picked out... |
other, but John's view of courtship and romance, based on Shakespeare's writings, is utterly incompatible with Lenina's freewheeling attitude to sex. She tries to seduce him, but he attacks her, before suddenly being informed that his mother is on her deathbed. He rushes to Linda's bedside, causing a scandal, as this i... | island for his non-conformist behaviour. John, the illicit son of the Director and Linda, born and reared on the Savage Reservation ("Malpais") after Linda was unwittingly left behind by her errant lover. John ("the Savage" or "Mr. Savage", as he is often called) is an outsider both on the Reservation—where the natives... |
least 1940s when Norbert Wiener developed a mathematical theory for calculating the best filters and predictors for detecting signals hidden in noise. Soon after Claude Shannon established a general theory of coding, work on predictive coding was done by C. Chapin Cutler, Bernard M. Oliver and Henry C. Harrison. Peter ... | format, introduced in 1993. Code-excited linear prediction (CELP) was developed by Schroeder and Atal in 1985. LPC is the basis for voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology. In 1972, Bob Kahn of ARPA, with Jim Forgie (Lincoln Laboratory, LL) and Dave Walden (BBN Technologies), started the first developments in packetized speech... |
buttresses of the cathedral. In 1410, Donatello made the first of the statues, a figure of Joshua in terracotta. A figure of Hercules, also in terracotta, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio in 1463 and was made perhaps under Donatello's direction. Eager to continue their project, in 1464, ... | bulge out of his lowered right hand. His left hand holds a sling that is draped over his shoulder and down to his right hand, which holds the handle of the sling. The nudity reflects the story of David as stated in the Bible, I Samuel 17:38-39: "And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon h... |
(藤原彰子) (988–1074), was a daughter of Fujiwara no Michinaga. In her later years, Ichijō's chūgo consort was known as Jōtō-mon In (上東門院). Events of Go-Ichijō's life Atsuhira-shinnō was used as a pawn in Imperial court politics when he was only a child. 1012 (Chōwa 1, 8th month): Prince Atsuhira marries a daughter of sess... | to the Iwashimizu Shrine accompanied by many courtiers. The travelers divided themselves amongst 15 boats for a floating trip down the Yotogawa River. One of the vessels overturned, and more than 30 people lost their lives. 1017 (Kannin 1, 12th month): Michinaga was elevated to the office of Daijō-Diajin. May 15, 1036 ... |
Japan. By topic Religion Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of Emperor Conrad II (the Elder). The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature. Births Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086) Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127) Igor Yaroslavich, pri... | script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia. Japan May 15 – Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan. By topic Religion Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of Emp... |
the Hosokawa Emperor Go-Suzaku is today named Shu-zan. The emperor's burial place would have been quite humble in the period after Go-Suzaku died. These tombs reached their present state as a result of the 19th century restoration of imperial sepulchers (misasagi) which were ordered by Emperor Meiji. The final resting ... | go- (後), translates literally as "later;" and thus, he is sometimes called the "Later Emperor Suzaku". The Japanese word "go" has also been translated to mean the "second one;" and in some older sources, this emperor may be identified as "Suzaku, the second" or as "Suzaku II." Biography Before his ascension to the Chry... |
IX, who abdicated during the previous year. January 23 – Edward the Confessor, King of England, marries Edith of Wessex, and begins construction of Westminster Abbey in England. February – Pope Sylvester III is deposed (election deemed invalid); Pope Benedict IX is elected once more, becoming the 147th pope. February 5... | February – Pope Sylvester III is deposed (election deemed invalid); Pope Benedict IX is elected once more, becoming the 147th pope. February 5 – Emperor Go-Reizei ascends the throne of Japan. May 5 – Pope Gregory VI becomes the 148th pope, following the resignation of Pope Benedict IX in exchange for money. There are g... |
were hereditary courtiers whose experience and background would have brought them to the pinnacle of a life's career. During Go-Reizei's reign, this apex of the Daijō-kan included: Kampaku, Fujiwara Yorimichi, 992–1074. Kampaku, Fujiwara Norimichi, 997–1075. Daijō-daijin, Fujiwara Yorimichi. Sadaijin, Fujiwara Norimich... | and powers so that he will be able to restore peace in the north. Yoriyoshi would have been the first to receive this specific shogunal title, although his grandfather (Minamoto no Tsunemoto) had been seitō fuku-shōgun (assistant commander for pacification of the east). Go-Reizei later died on May 22, 1068 at the age o... |
forces under Robert Guiscard (duke of Apulia and Calabria) lay siege to the Byzantine city of Bari. Battle of the Alta River: The Cumans defeat the Kievan Rus' forces of Grand Prince Iziaslav I, and his brothers Sviatoslav II and Vsevolod I. Kiev Uprising: The city of Kiev rebels against Iziaslav I, in the aftermath of... | Sviatoslav II and Vsevolod I. Kiev Uprising: The city of Kiev rebels against Iziaslav I, in the aftermath of the Kievan Rus' defeat against the Cumans. Rethra destruction: In Annals of Augsburg the slavic city is mentioned for the last time under the year 1068. It was captured by bishop Burchard, who destroyed their te... |
was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire December 15 – Byzantine Emperor Basil II ("Bulgar Slayer") dies in Constantinople after a 50-year reign. Never married, he is succeeded by his brother and co-emperor Constantine VIII who b... | holds horse racing at his mansion; the emperor attends. Births August 28 – Go-Reizei, Japanese emperor (d. 1068) Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1077) Anna Dalassene, Byzantine empress and regent Edith of Wessex, English queen (approximate date) Elisaveta Yaroslavna of Kiev, Norwegian queen Gerald of Sauve-Maje... |
(modern Annaba) on the Maghribi coast (modern Tunisia). The city is occupied for one year. Births Joscelin I de Courtenay, French nobleman (House of Courtenay) Khön Könchok Gyalpo, founder of Sakya Monastery (d. 1102) Deaths February 21 – Hawise of Normandy, French duchess and regent March 21 – Ezzo (or Ehrenfried), Ge... | Conrad II (the Elder) leads a German military expedition via the Rhone River into Burgundy, while two Italian armies led by Archbishop Aribert and Boniface III (margrave of Tuscany) head over the Alps and join with Count Humbert I at Great St. Bernard Pass. March – Conrad II converges his armies on Lake Lemano and defe... |
(3,000 men) across Bithynia to the Bosporus and sacks Chrysopolis, near Constantinople. Europe May 25 – King Sancho IV of Navarre and Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza, conclude an alliance by treaty. Ebles II of Roucy leads a French army in Spain, to support King Sancho V of Aragon in his strugg... | But the Byzantines are defeated and John is captured. Roussel marches with a force (3,000 men) across Bithynia to the Bosporus and sacks Chrysopolis, near Constantinople. Europe May 25 – King Sancho IV of Navarre and Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza, conclude an alliance by treaty. Ebles II of R... |
Shirakawa, Fukushima, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Shirakawa Domain, a feudal domain of Edo-period Japan Shirakawa, Gifu (town), a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan Shirakawa, Gifu (village), a World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture, | World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture, Japan Shirakawa, a neighborhood of Koto, Tokyo Shirakawa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan Shirakawa, Saitama, a town in |
King Edward the Confessor. By topic Religion Jōchō sculpts Amida Buddha for the Byōdō-in Temple during the Heian Period (approximate date). Births July 7 – Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (d. 1129) Berenguer Ramon II, count of Barcelona (approximate date) Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124) Hugh of... | during the Heian Period (approximate date). Births July 7 – Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (d. 1129) Berenguer Ramon II, count of Barcelona (approximate date) Guibert of Nogent, French historian and theologian (d. 1124) Hugh of Châteauneuf, bishop of Grenoble (d. 1132) Iorwerth ap Bleddyn, prince of Powys (d. 1111) Maria ... |
Births April 24 – Ramiro II (the Monk), king of Aragon (d. 1157) August 11 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1125) August 20 – Bolesław III, duke of Poland (d. 1138) Al-Shahrastani, Persian scholar and historian (d. 1153) Þorlákur Runólfsson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1133) Vicelinus, bishop of Oldenburg in Holstein (d. 115... | ruler of the Rum Sultanate, is killed by Emir Tutush I near Antioch. Suleiman's 7-year-old son Kilij Arslan is captured and transferred as hostage to Isfahan (modern Iran). Sultan Malik-Shah I rebuilds the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf (modern Iraq), after it was destroyed by fire. By topic Religion May 24 – Pope Victor III... |
military units led eventually to the rise to power of the Taira clan, who used their membership of these units to gather political and economic power to themselves. The end of the Heian period was marked by a rapid succession of cloistered emperors, to the point that there were several retired emperors living at the sa... | Rebellion, following the death of the Emperor Toba, was an example of direct opposition between an emperor and an emperor emeritus. Finally, the end of the reign of Emperor Go-Shirakawa was marked by the Genpei War and the rise of Minamoto no Yoritomo as the first Kamakura shōgun. Table The succession of power in the I... |
and spaces between their sides of the board and win. The final stage of the game, if necessary, consists of filling in the empty spaces in the path. A "safely connected" pattern is composed of stones of the player's color and open spaces which can be joined into a chain, an unbroken sequence of edge-wise adjacent stone... | Maker-Breaker game, a particular type of positional game. The game can never end in a draw (tie), in other words, Hex is also a "determined game". Hex is a finite, perfect information game, and an abstract strategy game that belongs to the general category of connection games. Hex is a special case of the "node" versio... |
the Software Distributor (SD) tools. LVM was also made available for Series 700. 10.10 (1996) Introduced the Common Desktop Environment. UNIX95 compliance. 10.20 (1996) This release included support for 64-bit PA-RISC 2.0 processors. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) were introduced for use within CDE. The root fi... | This release included support for 64-bit PA-RISC 2.0 processors. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) were introduced for use within CDE. The root file system could be configured to use the Veritas File System (VxFS). For legacy as well as technical reasons, the file system used for the boot kernel remained Hi Perfor... |
The Doorbeen featuring Ragini Tandan Lamborghini, an Italian sports | by The Doorbeen featuring Ragini |
are suitable for use with most English words, not just names. Metaphone algorithms are the basis for many popular spell checkers. New York State Identification and Intelligence System (NYSIIS), which maps similar phonemes to the same letter. The result is a string that can be pronounced by the reader without decoding. ... | more suitable for German words. Metaphone and Double Metaphone which are suitable for use with most English words, not just names. Metaphone algorithms are the basis for many popular spell checkers. New York State Identification and Intelligence System (NYSIIS), which maps similar phonemes to the same letter. The resul... |
design improvements over the original Metaphone algorithm. It is called "Double" because it can return both a primary and a secondary code for a string; this accounts for some ambiguous cases as well as for multiple variants of surnames with common ancestry. For example, encoding the name "Smith" yields a primary code ... | in the United States, having been developed according to modern engineering standards against a test harness of prepared correct encodings. Procedure Original Metaphone codes use the 16 consonant symbols 0BFHJKLMNPRSTWXY. The '0' represents "th" (as an ASCII approximation of Θ), 'X' represents "sh" or "ch", and the oth... |
predicament regarding how they should distribute videos on CD-ROMs. Thirty seconds of video displayed in 24-bit color and at thirty frames per second and Super VGA resolutions could take up 680 megabytes of space—the storage capacity of most CD-ROMs in 1992. Lossily compressing the videos would save a lot of space, but... | anticipate. The original AVI specification does not provide a standardized way to encode aspect ratio information, although the later OpenDML (AVI 2.0) specification does. Consequently, older players may not select the right aspect ratio automatically (though it may be possible to do so manually). There are several com... |
would be a test pilot trained at the Gromov Flight Research Institute (known as "LII"), and potential crew lists were drawn up. Only two potential Buran crew members reached space: Igor Volk, who flew in Soyuz T-12 to the space station Salyut 7, and Anatoli Levchenko who visited Mir, launching with Soyuz TM-4 and landi... | A test vehicle was constructed with four jet engines mounted at the rear; this vehicle is usually referred to as OK-GLI, or as the "Buran aerodynamic analogue". The jets were used to take off from a normal landing strip, and once it reached a designated point, the engines were cut and OK-GLI glided back to land. This p... |
Pennines in the area around Carlisle. The name that these two countries eventually united under, Northumbria, may have been coined by Bede and made popular through his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Information on the early royal genealogies for Bernicia and Deira comes from Bede's Ecclesiastical History... | The names Deira and Bernicia are likely British in origin, for example, indicating that some British place names retained currency after the Anglo-Saxon migrations to Northumbria. There is also some archeological evidence to support British origins for the polities of Bernicia and Deira. In what would have been souther... |
two-fifties or two-hundred and fifties) was a decade that | fifties) was a decade that ran from |
260, to December 31, | 260s decade ran |
from January 1, | 280's decade ran from January 1, 280, |
San Juan County. Islands not in San Juan County are not part of the San Juan Islands, according to the USGS. Today Today, the San Juan Islands are an important tourist destination, with sea kayaking and orca whale-watching (by boat or air tours) being two of the primary attractions. San Juan Island's Lime Kiln Point St... | thoroughly as the British and Americans, resulting in fewer Spanish names at the outset. Wilkes had given the name Navy Archipelago to the San Juan Islands, and named individual islands for distinguished officers of the U.S. Navy, such as Rodgers Island for San Juan Island, and Hull Island for Orcas Island. Some of his... |
SCUMM engine parts to use that were native to INSANE. Internally, much of the workings of SCUMM were undocumented, as Wilmunder believed that it was relatively simple to learn, but he changed this approach before The Secret of Monkey Island. To train new hires on the engine, Gilbert put them through SCUMM University, a... | train new hires on the engine, Gilbert put them through SCUMM University, a week-long period where they were taught how to use the SCUMM engine. These new hires, called , then were given the opportunity to explore and expand on example work to help identify where they would best fit into the development team. LucasArts... |
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