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East Indies. April 24 – Battle of Sahart: Gelawdewos is defeated by the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. May 8 – Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River, naming it the Rio de Espiritu Santo ("River of the Holy Spirit"). May 23 – Jacques Cartier departs from Saint-Malo, France on his th... | I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587) April 8 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (d. 1593) April 12 – Ipatii Potii, Metropolitan of Kiev (d. 1613) September 7 Luigi Groto, Italian lutenist and poet (d. 1588) Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish musician (d. 1602) September 16 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl ... |
incurred by the organizing committee to stage the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, th... | is US$3.1 billion, average cost overrun is 142%. Security The 2002 Winter Games were the first Olympic Games to take place since September 11, 2001, which meant a higher level of security than ever before provided for the Games. As a result, the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) designated the Olympics a National Speci... |
dissolved. July–December August 6 – Bogotá, Colombia is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. September 28 – Battle of Preveza: The Ottoman fleet of Suleiman the Magnificent, under the command of Hayreddin Barbarossa, defeats the Holy League of Emperor Charles V, under the command of Andrea Doria. September 29–October... | I, future Holy Roman Emperor and the Ottoman Empire. John Zápolya is recognized as King of Hungary (Eastern Hungarian Kingdom), while Ferdinand retains the northern and western parts of the Kingdom, and is recognized as heir to the throne. April 26 – Battle of Las Salinas: Almagro is defeated by Francisco Pizarro, who ... |
Six Articles, an Act of the Parliament of England, reaffirms certain Catholic principles in Henry VIII's Church of England. June 26 – Battle of Chausa in modern-day Buxar, India: Sher Shah Suri defeats the Mughal emperor, Humayun (Sher Shah goes on to form the Sur Empire, and take control of nearly all Mughal territory... | 1596) December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) December 20 – Paulus Melissus, German composer (d. 1602) December 31 – John Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1568) date unknown José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590) Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610) Laurence Toms... |
a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June January 25 – King Henry VIII of England formally but secretly marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort. January 26 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, is appointed Lord Chancel... | of England formally but secretly marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort. January 26 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, is appointed Lord Chancellor of England. March 30 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. April – The Statute in Restraint of Appeals in England declares the kin... |
November 16 – Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Abbess of Gandersheim, later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1595) November 22 – Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (d. 1585) November 28 – Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German poet and theologian (d. 1599) December 7 – Louis I, Count of Sayn-Wittgenstein (d. 1605) Decemb... | Parliament bans payment by the English Church to Rome. April – Battle of Quipaipan in Peru: Atahualpa wins the civil war in the Inca Empire, defeating his brother Huáscar. May 13 – Francisco Pizarro lands on the northern coast of Peru. May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. June 25 – Suleiman t... |
Chytraeus, German historian and theologian (d. 1600) March 11 – Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1573) May 5 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574) May 7 – Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Protestant general (d. 1569) June 17 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (d. 1579) June... | La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563) November 6 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (d. 1576) December 1 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616) December 5 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German musician (d. 1592) date unknown Julius Caesar Aranzi, Italian anatomist (d. 1589) Vincenza Armani, Italian actress (d. 1569) ... |
10 – The Ottoman army under Suleiman I leaves Constantinople, to invade Hungary once again. June 21 – War of the League of Cognac – Battle of Landriano: French forces in northern Italy are decisively defeated by Spain. July–December July 30 – The only continental outbreak of English sweating sickness reaches Lübeck, sp... | the first time and visits Nuremberg. Occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa publishes Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus ("Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex"), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women. A summit level canal between Alster and the T... |
church. March 17 – Battle of Khanwa: Babur defeats Rajput ruler Rana Sanga. This and two other major Moghul victories lead to their domination of northern India. Dhaulpur fort is taken by Babur. March Paracelsus is appointed as city physician of Basel, Switzerland. The Confederation of Shan States sack Ava, the capital... | King Frederick I declares religious tolerance for Lutherans, permits marriage of priests and forbids seeking papal pallium (approval) for royal appointments of Church officials.Fisher, George P (1873). The Reformation. Scribner. September 27 – Battle of Tarcal: Ferdinand, future Holy Roman Emperor, defeats John Zápolya... |
printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible into the English language by William Tyndale arrives in England from Germany, printing having been completed in Worms by Peter Schöffer the younger (with other copies being printed in Amsterdam). In October, Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, attempts to collect a... | world, the Mughal Empire, which lasts until 1857. May 22 – Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including Pope Clement VII, Milan, Venice, and Florence. May 24 – A transit of Venus occurs, the last before optical filters allow astronomers to observe them. June 9 – Empe... |
is one of the witnesses. June 16 – Henry VIII of England appoints his six-year old illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy Duke of Richmond and Somerset. June 23–24 – German Peasants' War: Battle of Pfeddersheim – Peasants defeated in the last significant action of the war, in which over 75,000 peasants have been killed. July–D... | George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. February 24 – Battle of Pavia: German and Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army, and capture F... |
(d. 1586) October 14 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Danish princess (d. 1586) October 16 – Nicolas, Duke of Mercœur, French Catholic bishop (d. 1577) November 12 – Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (d. 1579) date unknown Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (d. 1584) Armand de Gontaut, baron d... | El Salvador. July–December Summer – Paracelsus visits Salzburg; he also visits Villach during the year. July 8 – Verrazzano's expedition returns to Dieppe. August–September – Marseille is besieged by Imperial forces, under the Duke of Bourbon. August – Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt dispute ... |
is beneficial when many unrelated operations on an object structure are required, the classes that make up the object structure are known and not expected to change, new operations need to be added frequently, an algorithm involves several classes of the object structure, but it is desired to manage it in one single lo... | (a.k.a. Dynamic Visitor) by allowing use of simple function overloading to cover all the cases being visited. A dynamic visitor, provided it operates on public data only, conforms to the open/closed principle (since it does not modify extant structures) and to the single responsibility principle (since it implements th... |
Mohelnice, Moravian Catholic archbishop (d. 1580) February 20 – Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, (d. 1569) February 21 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1532) February 28 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (d. 1536) March 8 – Sidonie of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1575) April ... | of dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg, in which many people die from constant dancing. August – Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed in England. October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe. Date unknown The Rajput Mewar Kingdom under Rana Sanga achieves a major... |
Ottomans. Births January 17 Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English duke (d. 1554) Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (d. 1580) January 30 – Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis, German theologian (d. 1568) February 2 – Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1587) February 12 – Luigi Cornaro, Italian Cath... | Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in 1513 and 1516 by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China, commissioned by a ruler of Europe (Manuel I of Portugal). October 31 – Reformation: Martin Lu... |
first known permanent inhabitant of Saint Helena. Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France. The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the Master of the Posts, is established by Henry VIII of England. Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, England. Fuggerei is established in Augsburg (Ba... | known permanent inhabitant of Saint Helena. Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France. The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the Master of the Posts, is established by Henry VIII of England. Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, England. Fuggerei is established in Augsburg (Bavaria)... |
Milan. November 15 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal. December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named Lord Chancellor of England. Date unknown Cardinal Wolsey orders construction to begin on what is to become Henry VIII's future summer residence Hampton Court Palace. Bartolomé de las Casas urges Ferdinand II of Aragon to ... | September 8 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish biblical scholar and early Jesuit (d. 1585) September 22 – Anne of Cleves, Fourth Queen of Henry VIII of England (d. 1557) October 4 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586) October 7 – Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, son of King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1540) Oct... |
Chaldiran: Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I. September 8 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Jagiellonian dynasty forces comprising Belarusians of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poles defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed ... | (d. 1561) March 23 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (d. 1548) April 2 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (d. 1574) April 5 – Joachim Mörlin, German bishop (d. 1571) April 30 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince (d. 1515) May 28 – Shimazu Takahisa, daimyō a... |
European definitely known to sight Florida, mistaking it for another island. April 2 – Juan Ponce de León and his expedition become the first Europeans known to visit Florida, landing somewhere on the east coast. April 2 – Juan Garrido (as part of Juan Ponce de León's expedition) becomes the first African known to visi... | what will become known as the Pacific Ocean. October 7 – Battle of La Motta (War of the League of Cambrai): Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Avalos decisively defeat those of the Republic of Venice under Bartolomeo d'Alviano on Venetian territory. December Louis XII of France makes peace with the Po... |
it some 15-20 kilometers to the west, between Gemona and Pulfero in Friulian Slovenia. The earthquake affects a large territory between Carinthia, Friuli, present-day Slovenia and Croatia. April 9 St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter. The Şahkulu Rebellion break... | China and India is concentrated. The Sultanate then establishes rule from Johor, starting decades of skirmishes against the Portuguese to regain the fallen city. While taking the city, the Portuguese slaughter a large community of Chinese merchants living there. Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken b... |
– Portuguese conquest of Goa: Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Goa. March 1 – Battle of Salt River: Indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua decisively defeat sailors of the Portuguese Empire in South Africa. May 12 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan, Prince of Anhua, kills all the officials invited to a ba... | Postel, French linguist (d. 1581) March 30 – Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (d. 1566) June 6 – Giovanni Battista Cicala, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1570) June 22 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537) August 11 – Margaret Paleologa, Sovereign Marchioness of Montferrat (1531–1540) (d. ... |
1534) June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and Knight of Malta (d. 1566) June 25 – Marie of Baden-Sponheim, duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1580) July 25 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (d. 1576) August 2 – William Waldegrave, English Member of Parliament (d. 1554) August 15 – George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau,... | (d. 1577) June 5 – Ferdinand of Portugal, Duke of Guarda and Trancoso, Portuguese nobleman (d. 1534) June 6 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and Knight of Malta (d. 1566) June 25 – Marie of Baden-Sponheim, duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1580) July 25 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (d. 1576) August 2 – William Wald... |
1459) February 15 – Giovanni II Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna (b. 1443) February 27 – James, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b. 1507) February 28 – Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1448) March 18 – Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1447) March – Lourenço de Almeida, Portuguese explorer April 10 – Guidobaldo... | youth, his grandmother Eleni acts as regent. December – Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Holy See of Rome, on a commission by Pope Julius II (signed May 10). December 10 – The League of Cambrai is formed as an alliance against the Republic of Venice, between Pope Julius II, Louis XII of Fr... |
a grammar school for boys. Basil Solomon becomes Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East. Births January 1 – Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (d. 1573) January 2 – Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572) January 3 – Gian Girolamo Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1591) January 25 – Giovanni Morone, Italian Ca... | (d. 1569) March 27 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck (1539–1575) (d. 1575) April 23 – Afonso of Portugal, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1540) July 4 – Magnus III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Lutheran bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin (d. 1550) July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (d. 1564) July 25 – Philip I... |
send envoys to the King of Kotte; they also reach the Comoros. Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez. King Alexander of Poland signs the Nihil novi Act, making Poland a Nobles' Democracy. Poland prohibits peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom. Christ's College, Cambridge, England,... | peasants from leaving their lands, establishing serfdom. Christ's College, Cambridge, England, is re-founded, receiving its charter from Lady Margaret Beaufort. Judah Abravanel becomes personal physician to the viceroy of Naples. Battle of Achnashellach in Scotland: The Clan Cameron emerges victorious over several othe... |
to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci’s design, and the project is a major failure. Venetian ambassadors suggest to Turkey the construction of a Suez Canal. Aldus Manutius publishes his edition of Demosthenes in Venice... | Granada. September 22 – Treaty of Blois: Philip I of Castile, Maximilian I and Louis XII agree to terms. October 12 – Isabella I of Castile signs her will and testament. November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Centr... |
declares that the Jewish Messiah will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the year of penance. The King's School, Macclesfield, England, is founded by Sir John Percyvale. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa receives the degree of magister artium from the University of Cologne. Wilhelm Bombast moves to Villach with his son... | (d. 1559) April 25 – Georg Major, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1574) June 2 – Guillaume Bigot, French writer (d. 1550) June 6 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557) July 26 – Christian Egenolff, German printer (d. 1555) July 27 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (d. 1571) August 14 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flem... |
January 17 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566) January 24 – Jacob Milich, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1559) February 24 – Sixt Birck, German humanist (d. 1554) March 21 – Anne Brooke, Baroness Cobham, English noble (d. 1558) March 12 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577... | political theorist, statesman, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli marries Marietta Corsini, who will bear him six children. August 27 – Battle of the Siritsa River: The Livonian Order, supporting the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War, and commanded by Wolter von Plettenberg, defeats an army of... |
as the "Entrance" of the Iberian Peninsula. Perpignan was the capital of the former province and County of Roussillon (Rosselló in Catalan) and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries. It has preserved an extensive old centre with its bodegas in the historic centre, coloured houses ... | French during the Thirty Years' War in September 1642, Perpignan was formally ceded by Spain 17 years later in the Treaty of the Pyrenees, and thereafter remained a French possession. In June 2020, it was reported that the National Rally's Louis Aliot won the mayor election in Perpignan. it would be the first time that... |
its member states' nemesis, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. King Afonso III (the Boulonnais) captures the Algarve from the Moors, thus completing the expulsion of the Moors from Portugal. Albertus Magnus isolates the element arsenic, as the 8th discovered metal. He also first uses the word "oriole" to describe a type... | the Song dynasty Chinese seaport at Quanzhou, due to his effort in defeating pirates. Africa April 6 – Battle of Fariskur: Louis IX (the Saint) is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself. May 2 – Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Ayyubid ruler of Egypt, i... |
baptized, in prelude to his crowning as King of Lithuania in 1253. Alexander Nevsky signs the first peace treaty between Kievan Rus' and Norway. King Conrad IV of Germany invades Italy, but fails to subdue the supporters of Pope Innocent IV. The German city of Berlin, founded some 50 years earlier, receives its city ch... | Lithuania in 1253. Alexander Nevsky signs the first peace treaty between Kievan Rus' and Norway. King Conrad IV of Germany invades Italy, but fails to subdue the supporters of Pope Innocent IV. The German city of Berlin, founded some 50 years earlier, receives its city charter. Ottokar II of Bohemia, later to become Ki... |
66 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Stockholm. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 66 people, 36 households, and 21 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 88 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the villag... | 89 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% white. There were 48 households, out of which 16.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 4.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families. ... |
path and executing most of those who surrendered. Santa Anna led a larger force to San Antonio de Béxar (or Béxar), where his troops defeated the Texian garrison in the Battle of the Alamo, killing almost all of the defenders. A newly created Texian army under the command of Sam Houston was constantly on the move, whil... | engagement markedly similar to the battle of Concepción, the Texians repulsed several attacks and inflicted heavy casualties, relying on the greater accuracy and range of their rifles. By the end of the day, the Texians were hungry, thirsty, tired, and almost out of ammunition. Ward ordered a retreat, and under cover o... |
of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the "horizon of all horizons". In philosophy of mind,... | of involving a contradiction: there cannot be a plurality of actual worlds if worlds are defined as maximally inclusive wholes. This danger may be avoided by interpreting Goodman's world-concept not as maximally inclusive wholes in the absolute sense but in relation to its corresponding world-version: a world contains ... |
A minor upon his father's death in 1439, the Inner Austrian duke Frederick V, Sigismund's first cousin, acted as regent until 1446. Frederick, elected King of the Romans (as Frederick IV) in February 1440, exploited all opportunities to extend his influence over the Further Austrian lands. He also interfered in the Old... | of the 1470s and early 1480s Sigismund issued a decree that instituted a radical coinage reformation that eventually led up to the creation of the world's first really large and heavy silver coin in nearly a millennium, the guldengroschen, which the Habsburgs in Bohemia developed later into the thaler. This coin was th... |
of his younger brother Albert IV and then kept only the new duchy of Bavaria-Dachau as his domain until his death. In 1468, the foundation stone of the Frauenkirche in Munich was laid by Sigismund. He also ordered to enlarge Blutenburg Castle, to construct its chapel, and to build the church St. Wolfgang in Pipping nea... | 1463 together with his brother John IV. In 1467, he resigned in favor of his younger brother Albert IV and then kept only the new duchy of Bavaria-Dachau as his domain until his death. In 1468, the foundation stone of the Frauenkirche in Munich was laid by Sigismund. He also ordered to enlarge Blutenburg Castle, to con... |
towns – sister cities Karlskoga is twinned with: Aalborg, Denmark Fredrikstad, Norway Húsavík, Iceland Ivangorod, Russia Narva, Estonia Olaine, Latvia Riihimäki, Finland Sanremo, Italy Wheaton, United States See also Karlskoga Mountain District References External links Karlskoga Municipality | was detached, forming Degerfors Municipality. In 1940 the whole municipality, including its non-urban areas, got the title of a city. These titles were abolished in 1971. Riksdag elections Twin towns – sister cities Karlskoga is twinned with: Aalborg, |
years. History Located in Karlskoga, Sweden, the company originates from the hammer mill "Boofors", which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646. The modern corporate structure was created in 1873 with the foundation of Aktiebolaget (AB) Bofors-Gullspång. A leading Swedish steel producer by the early 1870s,... | and chemical industry participant. The powder manufacturer AB Bofors Nobelkrut, later an explosives and general organic-chemical producer, was created in 1898 as a wholly owned subsidiary. By 1911, AB Bofors-Gullspång had outcompeted, bought and closed down its Finspång Swedish competitor in cannon manufacture. The com... |
they often aid in the transition to self-sufficiency. These institutions are considered to be one of the most important parts of a mental health system by many psychiatrists, although some localities lack sufficient funding. Political imprisonment In some countries, the mental institution may be used for the incarcerat... | of the nineteenth century there were a few thousand "sick people" housed in a variety of disparate institutions throughout England, but by 1900 that figure had grown to about 100,000. This growth coincided with the growth of alienism, later known as psychiatry, as a medical specialism. The treatment of inmates in early... |
week of the convention fishing off the New Jersey coast. The Bimetallic Committee carefully planned to take control of every aspect of the convention, eliminating any threat that the minority gold faction could take power. It made no secret of these preparations. This takeover was considered far more important than was... | the Pullman Palace Car Company, which made railroad cars, had struck after wages were cut. Railway employees had refused to handle Pullman cars in sympathy with the strikers; this action threatened to paralyze the nation's rail lines. The President's move was opposed by the Democratic Governor of Illinois, John Altgeld... |
on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe March 26 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II ("the Elder") and his wife Gisela of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor and Empress, respectively, in Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Cnut the Great, King of Denmark and England, attends ... | Dublin and sub-King Flannacán of Brega make a pilgrimage to Rome. Ealdred is appointed abbot of Tavistock Abbey in England (approximate date). Asia August 16 – Bagrat IV becomes king of Georgia on the death of his father, George I. Queen Dowager Mariam becomes regent for her 9-year-old son. Wedding of Crown Prince Atsu... |
and writer of Islamic studies (d. 1095) Clement III, antipope of the Catholic Church (approximate date) Kaoruko (or Saien-no Kogo), Japanese empress consort (d. 1093) Said al-Andalusi, Moorish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1070) Ulrich of Zell (or Wulderic), German abbot and saint (d. 1093) Deaths January 20 – Heona... | Prince Pandulf IV of Capua becomes the de facto ruler of southern Italy – holding Capua and Naples himself – this in support with his powerful allies Amalfi, Salerno and Benevento. Only the Duchy of Gaeta remains out of his grasp. Rainulf Drengot, head of a mercenary band of Norman knights, is approached by Duke John V... |
of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme. Europe July 13 – Emperor Henry II dies in his imperial palace at Göttingen (modern Germany). He leaves no heirs, thereby ending the Ottonian dynasty. The Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire is founded by Conrad II. September – Conrad II (the Elder) is elected and crowned as King of Germany... | heirs, thereby ending the Ottonian dynasty. The Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire is founded by Conrad II. September – Conrad II (the Elder) is elected and crowned as King of Germany in Mainz, while both he and his cousin Conrad the Younger (son of Conrad I, duke of Carinthia) are invested as joint dukes of Franc... |
corpses in the streets; disease spreads throughout the country. 60th birthday and longevity ceremony of Japanese matriarch Minamoto no Rinshi. The Ghaznavid Empire occupies Transoxiana (approximate date). By topic Religion The Dom Church at Utrecht (modern Netherlands) is severely damaged by fire. Bishop Adalbold II be... | Bishop Adalbold II begins construction of a new Romanesque style church. Births Lý Thánh Tông, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1072) Otto I (or Odon), count of Savoy (approximate date) Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona (d. 1076) William VII ("the Bold"), duke of Aquitaine (d. 1058) Deaths March 27 – Gebhard I, bishop of Reg... |
and ascends (as a minor) to the throne in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). Asia The Chinese military has one million registered soldiers during the Song Dynasty, an increase since the turn of the 11th century (approximate date). By topic Religion After the Council of Orléans, King Robert II (the Pious) burns thirteen heretic... | Lombard principalities. King Olof Skötkonung dies and is succeeded by his son Anund Jakob (or James) as ruler of Sweden. He becomes the second Christian king of the Swedish realm. Africa The 14-year-old Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis takes over, with support of the Zirid nobles, the government and ascends (as a minor) to the thro... |
I extends his influence of the Chola Empire to the banks of the Ganges River (North India) and invades Bengal. Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni appoints Malik Ayaz to the throne, making Lahore (modern Pakistan) the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire. The Chinese capital city of Kaifeng has some half a million residents by this yea... | same day, al-Hakim's designated heir, Abd al-Rahim ibn Ilyas, is arrested in Damascus and brought to Egypt. The last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-Arabophone culture in Tripolitania (modern Libya) is seen. Asia Senekerim-Hovhannes Artsruni, king of Vaspurakan (Greater Armenia), surrenders his kingdom to the ... |
but remains non-commital. June 15 – Byzantine troops under Catepan Basil Boioannes (supported by his ally Prince Pandulf IV) capture the fortress of Troia. The French city of Saint-Germain-en-Laye is founded by King Robert II (the Pious). King Canute the Great codifies the laws of England (approximate date). King Gagik... | William of Poitiers, French priest and writer (d. 1090) Wulfhild of Norway, duchess consort of Saxony (d. 1071) Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (d. 1077) Deaths June 12 – Lyfing, archbishop of Canterbury June 15 – Dattus (or Datto), Lombard rebel leader August 16 – Zhou Huaizheng, Chinese eunuch Al-Mu'ay... |
Islander people's ideas, also known as Indigenous astronomy, and it was around before the Babylonians, Greeks, and the Renaissance period. They found ways to observe the moon, stars, and the sun, this enabled them to create a sense of time. This also allowed them to navigate across the continent, create calendars, and ... | cognition of them. (p. 402) The book The Works of Aristotle (1908, p. 80 Fragments) mentioned Aristotle says the poet Orpheus never existed; the Pythagoreans ascribe this Orphic poem to a certain Cercon (see Cercops). Bertrand Russell (1947) noted The Orphics were an ascetic sect; wine, to them, was only a symbol, as, ... |
and join the Serbian Orthodox Church. To deal with the grievances of the Hungarian noblemen, Louis held a Diet in late 1351. He confirmed all but one of the provisions of the Golden Bull of 1222, declaring that all noblemen enjoyed the same liberties in his realms. He rejected only the provision that authorized nobleme... | orders. The other princes were kept captive and sent to Hungary, together with Louis's infant nephew, Charles Martel. Louis marched to Naples in February. The citizens offered him a ceremonious entry, but he refused, threatening to let his soldiers sack the town if they did not raise the taxes. He adopted the tradition... |
contains the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, located north of Provincetown. Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay are both part of the Gulf of Maine, which includes the waters between the Cape and Nova Scotia. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east of Cape Cod, and to the southwest of the Cape is Buzzards Bay. The C... | quite young, having been laid down some 16,000 to 20,000 years ago. Most of Cape Cod's geological history involves the advance and retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the late Pleistocene geological era and the subsequent changes in sea level. Using radiocarbon dating techniques, researchers have determined that aro... |
War, Germany also had these submarines with similar names: , a Type UB III submarine launched in 1918 and surrendered on 21 November 1918; broken up at Bo'ness in 1920–21 , a Type UC III submarine launched in 1918 and surrendered on 24 November 1918; broken | on 24 November 1918; broken up at Morecambe in 1919–20 , a Type VIIC submarine that served in the Second World War until sunk on 30 March 1945; the subject of the director Wolfgang Petersen's |
Ossian cycle of poems, and was the name that came to be used in the family, mainly by the mother and the aunt. Désirée is said to have chosen Napoleon to be Oscar's godfather. He spent his first years in France, living with his mother and aunt, partly in Paris, partly at Joseph Bonaparte's country residence, the Châtea... | and would not return until 1823. Oscar, who was accompanied to Sweden by Le Moine, immediately got a teacher of Swedish and was soon able to serve as his father's interpreter. On 17 January 1816, Oscar was elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and in 1818 was appointed chancellor of Uppsa... |
the 1960s to fit the modern agricultural needs and methods, particularly mechanisation. Several forests still exist, such as the Paimpont forest, sometimes said to be the Arthurian Brocéliande. The poor and rocky areas are covered by large heathland and moorlands, and Brittany has several marshes, like the Brière, incl... | and anglerfish populate the deep waters. River fish of note include trout, Atlantic salmon, pikes, shades and lampreys. The Breton rivers are also home to beavers and otters and to some invasive American species, such as the coypu which destroys the ecosystem and accelerated the extinction of the European mink. Among t... |
two or more people. Various methods of passing the objects between the jugglers is used — this can be through the air (as in toss juggling), bounced off the ground, simply handed over, or a number of other ways depending on the objects and the style of juggling. For example, one variation is where two club jugglers sta... | in their skill level, prop use and costuming. However, they all share the fact that the focus of the performance is comedic rather than a demonstration of technical juggling skill. Comedy juggling acts are most commonly seen in street performance, festivals and fairs. Gentleman juggling Gentleman juggling was popular i... |
those as "surprisingly rare". arXiv generally re-classifies these works, e.g. in "General mathematics", rather than deleting them; however, some authors have voiced concern over the lack of transparency in the arXiv screening process. Submission formats Papers can be submitted in any of several formats, including LaTeX... | physics sections remain unlisted. Additionally, an "endorsement" system was introduced in 2004 as part of an effort to ensure content is relevant and of interest to current research in the specified disciplines. Under the system, for categories that use it, an author must be endorsed by an established arXiv author befo... |
confused with phage integrases (recombinases) used in biotechnology, such as λ phage integrase, as discussed in site-specific recombination. The macromolecular complex of an IN macromolecule bound to the ends of the viral DNA ends has been referred to as the intasome; IN is a key component in this and the retroviral pr... | the viral gene expression and particle production may take place immediately or at some point in the future, the timing of which depends on the activity of the chromosomal locus hosting the provirus. Vis-a-vis mechanism, known retroviral INs catalyzes two reactions: 3'-processing, in which two or three nucleotides are ... |
defeated the Mercian king Beornwulf (who had overthrown Ceolwulf in 823) at Ellendun. The Battle of Ellendun proved decisive. Beornwulf was slain while suppressing a revolt amongst the East Angles, and his successor, a former ealdorman named Ludeca (reigned 826–827), met the same fate. Another ealdorman, Wiglaf, subseq... | Offa is credited with the construction of Offa's Dyke, which marked the border between Wales and Mercia. Offa exerted himself to ensure that his son Ecgfrith of Mercia would succeed him, but after Offa's death in July 796 Ecgfrith survived for only five months, and the kingdom passed to a distant relative named Coenwul... |
1986). During this period, Leone also directed various award-winning TV commercials for European television. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. 1980s Leone turned down the offer to direct The Godfather, in favor of working on another gangster story he had conceived earl... | immigrant, Francesco, who arrives via the Port of Boston, they try desperately to avoid the battles of the ongoing war between the states. The film was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Ambrose Bierce (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge), Mark Twa... |
for the femme market". After the modest success of Daisy Kenyon, Preminger saw That Lady in Ermine as a further opportunity. Betty Grable was cast opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The film had previously been another Lubitsch project, but after Lubitsch's sudden death in November 1947, Preminger took over. His next film... | a wealthy industrialist from Graz approached Otto with an offer to direct a film called Die große Liebe (The Great Love). Preminger did not have the same passion for the medium as he had for theater. He accepted the assignment nonetheless. The film premiered at the Emperor Theater in Vienna on 21 December 1931, to stro... |
five films with Clint Eastwood, including the police thriller Dirty Harry (1971) and the prison drama Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He also directed John Wayne's final film, the Western The Shootist (1976). Early life and education Siegel was born in 1912 to a Jewish family in Chicago; his father was a mandolin player. ... | and "a touchstone for the sci-fi genre" which spawned three remakes. For television, he directed two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "Uncle Simon" (1963) and "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (1964), and was the producer of The Legend of Jesse James (1965). He worked with Eli Wallach in The Lineup, Elvis Presley ... |
stained with tobacco juice, grass, and mud, and sometimes the juice of licorice, which some players would chew for the purpose of discoloring the ball. Also, pitchers could manipulate the ball through the use of the spitball. (In 1921 use of this pitch was restricted to a few pitchers with a grandfather clause). Additi... | left Canada with just one team, but it also returned baseball to Washington after a 33-year absence. This franchise shift, like many previous ones, involved baseball's return to a city that had been previously abandoned. Not counting the short-lived Federal League, Montreal is the only city granted an MLB franchise sin... |
of middle class Jewish parents, Carl and Joan Fastow, who worked in retail and merchandising. Fastow graduated from New Providence High School, where he took part in student government, played on the tennis team, and played in the school band. He was the sole student representative on the New Jersey State Board of Educ... | reporters for The Wall Street Journal discovered an Enron "senior officer" had recently sold his interest in several partnerships that had done business with Enron, they initially thought that officer was Skilling. However, Enron spokesman Mark Palmer revealed that the "senior officer" was really Fastow. After a former... |
hexagonal base, wide and high, which contained six magnesium chassis housing the electronics for the science experiments, communications, data encoding, computing, timing, and attitude control, and the power control, battery, and battery charger, as well as the attitude control gas bottles and the rocket engine. On top... | vicinity of Venus. In addition to these scientific instruments, Mariner 2 had a data conditioning system (DCS) and a scientific power switching (SPS) unit. The DCS was a solid-state electronic system designed to gather information from the scientific instruments on board the spacecraft. It had four basic functions: ana... |
of two or more components where the particles aren't individually visible Particle, the solid or liquid particles in an aerosol Granular material Particulates, in the areas of atmospheric physics and air pollution Nanoparticle, an object between 1 and 100 nanometers that behaves as a whole unit Point particle, or point... | 100 nanometers that behaves as a whole unit Point particle, or point mass, an idealization of an object with finite mass but of zero size A particle of a medium in continuum mechanics, meaning an infinitesimal portion of it. Self-propelled particles, a concept used in statistical physics to model swarms Subatomic parti... |
crafts also studied the atmosphere of Mars. Coming a week after Apollo 11, Mariner 6 and 7's flyby of Mars received less than the normal amount of media coverage for a mission of this significance. The ultraviolet spectrometer onboard Mariners 6 and 7 was constructed by University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospher... | Mars missions. Mariner 6 also had the objective of providing experience and data which would be useful in programming the Mariner 7 encounter five days later. Launch Three Mariner probes were constructed for the mission, with two intended to fly and one as a spare in the event of a mission failure. The spacecraft was s... |
LL.D. from the University of Redlands in 2000. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U.S. Constitution. Professional history Law firm Boies was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he started upon law school graduati... | qui tam complaint which alleged that Medco helped some pharmaceutical companies make more money by driving prescriptions to them; along with making the payment Medco also signed a corporate integrity agreement. On August 20, 2009 the Golden Gate Yacht Club announced that he had been retained in their ongoing dispute wi... |
spacecraft to use active solar pressure control. The components on Mariner 10 can be categorized into four groups based on their common function. The solar panels, power subsystem, attitude control subsystem, and the computer kept the spacecraft operating properly during the flight. The navigational system, including t... | cosmic radiation. In connection with the plasma detectors and magnetometers, this experiment had the potential to provide additional evidence of a magnetic field around Mercury, by showing whether such a field had captured charged particles. Two telescopes were used to collect highly energetic electrons and atomic nucl... |
Laboratory, and originally planned to be a purpose-built probe launched summer 1962, Mariner 1's design was changed when the Centaur proved unavailable at that early date. Mariner 1 (and its sibling spacecraft, Mariner 2), were then adapted from the lighter Ranger lunar spacecraft. Mariner 1 carried a suite of experime... | watt silver-zinc storage battery. Two more included the radio receiver, the three-watt transmitter, and control systems for Mariner's experiments. The fifth case held electronics for digitizing the analog data received by the experiments for transmission. The sixth case carried the three gyroscopes that determined Mari... |
Telemetry data suggested a separation failure of either the Agena or the payload fairing, but a below-normal velocity appeared to indicate that the fairing had not separated properly. A command was sent to manually jettison the payload shroud, but nothing happened. The ground controllers next considered firing Mariner ... | Mariner 3 (together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA's Mariner-Mars 1964 project that were intended to conduct close-up (flyby) scientific observations of the planet Mars and transmit information on i... |
5 during June, July, and early August 1968 yielded no spacecraft signal. On October 14, the receiver operator at DSS 14 obtained a lock on the Mariner 5 signal. A carrier wave was detected, but outside expected frequency limits and varying in wavelength. Signal strength changes indicated the spacecraft was in a slow ro... | together under a combined Soviet–American working group of COSPAR in 1969, an organization of early space cooperation. With the data of these missions, it was clear that Venus had a very hot surface and an atmosphere even denser than expected. The operations of Mariner 5 ended in November 1967 and it is now defunct in ... |
built on an octagonal magnesium frame, 45.7 cm deep and 138.4 cm across a diagonal. Four solar panels, each 215 x 90 cm, extended out from the top of the frame. Each set of two solar panels spanned 6.89 meters from tip to tip. Also mounted on the top of the frame were two propulsion tanks, the maneuver engine, a 1.44 m... | which made up the 4 solar panels with a total area of 7.7 square meters area. The solar panels could produce 800 W at Earth and 500 W at Mars. Power was stored in a 20 ampere hour nickel-cadmium battery. Propulsion was provided by a gimbaled engine capable of 1340 N thrust and up to 5 restarts. The propellant was monom... |
species and are often open to hunting. States also collect money from hunting licenses to assist with management of game animals, as designated by law. A key task of federal and state park rangers and game wardens is to enforce laws and regulations related to hunting, including species protection, hunting seasons, and ... | Internet using remotely controlled guns, the practice was widely criticised by hunters as violating the principles of fair chase. As a representative of the National Rifle Association (NRA) explained, "The NRA has always maintained that fair chase, being in the field with your firearm or bow, is an important element of... |
the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence (the Old Hall, see below) and of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882. Facilities Rev. Francis A. Swan built a National School for 50 children in 1860. It survived until 1983. The parish of Sausthorpe had a population of 206 in 30 inhabited houses in 1831. Kelly's... | the rectory living, residence (the Old Hall, see below) and of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882. Facilities Rev. Francis A. Swan built a National School for 50 children in 1860. It survived until 1983. The parish of Sausthorpe had a population of 206 in 30 inhabited houses in 1831. Kelly's Directory recorded that ... |
way to all customers in all locations. For many years, Andersen's motto was "Think straight, talk straight"—an axiom passed on from his mother. During the early years, it is reputed that Andersen was approached by an executive from a local rail utility to sign off on accounts containing flawed accounting, or else face ... | jury that convicted the firm. Despite this, the damage to Andersen's reputation was so great that it has never returned as a viable business even on a limited scale. The former consultancy and outsourcing practice of the firm separated from the firm's accountancy practice and split from Andersen Worldwide in 2000, when... |
in that country. Ernst & Young also includes separate legal entities which manage three of its four geographic areas: the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and EMEIA (Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa) groups, the fourth area being Japan, which has no larger co-ordination branch. These entities coordinate services perfor... | their clients, the times they didn't resulted in a loss of business. Despite this large-scale collusion in audits, the PCAOB in its 16-year history has only made 18 enforcement cases against the "big four". Although these auditors have failed audits in 31% of cases (808 cases in total), they have only faced action by P... |
Grown as ornamental. Crimean snowdrop, Galanthus plicatus, 30 cm tall, flowering January/March, white flowers, with broad leaves folded back at the edges (explicative vernation) Giant snowdrop, Galanthus elwesii, a native of the Levant, 23 cm tall, flowering January/February, with large flowers, the three inner segment... | native wild flower, or to have been brought to the British Isles by the Romans, it most likely was introduced around the early sixteenth century, and is currently not a protected species in the UK. It was first recorded as naturalised in the UK in Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in 1770. Most other Galanthus species... |
Bavarian, by his second wife, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut, and a member of the House of Wittelsbach. Louis was Duke of Upper Bavaria as Louis VI (1347–1365) and Margrave of Brandenburg (1351–1365) as Louis II. As of 1356, he also served as Prince-Elector of Brandenburg. Biography Louis was born in Rome when his pa... | (1347–1365) and Margrave of Brandenburg (1351–1365) as Louis II. As of 1356, he also served as Prince-Elector of Brandenburg. Biography Louis was born in Rome when his parents travelled there for his father's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, hence his nickname "the Roman". When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded... |
be viewed as a method of assigning algebraic invariants to a topological space that has a more refined algebraic structure than does homology. Cohomology arises from the algebraic dualization of the construction of homology. In less abstract language, cochains in the fundamental sense should assign 'quantities' to the ... | homotopy theory. The purely combinatorial counterpart to a simplicial complex is an abstract simplicial complex. A CW complex is a type of topological space introduced by J. H. C. Whitehead to meet the needs of homotopy theory. This class of spaces is broader and has some better categorical properties than simplicial c... |
Pope John XXII; Louis in turn attempted to depose the pope and install an anti-pope. Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 to 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, was Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323, and Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, and became Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340. He became Coun... | Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340. He became Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland in 1345 when his wife Margaret inherited those domains. Early reign as Duke of Upper Bavaria Louis was born in Munich, the son of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine, and Matilda, a daughter of King Ru... |
in data due to compression Image compression, of digital images Video compression One-way compression function, a cryptographic primitive Dynamic range compression, reducing audio dynamic range Medicine Brain compression, a medical condition Compression bandage Pressing on the lower abdominal area in an intravenous pye... | to compression Image compression, of digital images Video compression One-way compression function, a cryptographic primitive Dynamic range compression, reducing audio dynamic range Medicine Brain compression, a medical condition Compression bandage Pressing on the lower abdominal area in an intravenous pyelogram Cold ... |
support) branch", which currently is (as of 2021) the 2.2 branch (which was formerly called "modern branch", in comparison to the 2.0 branch). The old "legacy branch" (formerly called "classic branch"), which is and will stay the 1.4 branch. Before GnuPG 2.3, two stable branches of GnuPG were actively maintained: "Mode... | the last patent of IDEA expired in 2012. Support of IDEA is intended "to get rid of all the questions from folks either trying to decrypt old data or migrating keys from PGP to GnuPG", and hence is not recommended for regular use. As of 2.2 versions, GnuPG supports the following algorithms: Public key RSA, ElGamal, DSA... |
acid L-glutamate. Glutamate-5-semialdehyde is first formed by glutamate 5-kinase (ATP-dependent) and glutamate-5-semialdehyde dehydrogenase (which requires NADH or NADPH). This can then either spontaneously cyclize to form 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylic acid, which is reduced to proline by pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (... | α-carbon and to a chain of three carbons that together form a five-membered ring. History and etymology Proline was first isolated in 1900 by Richard Willstätter who obtained the amino acid while studying N-methylproline, and synthesized proline by the reaction of sodium salt of diethyl malonate with 1,3-dibromopropane... |
is usually called a "working couple" (regardless of their gender). It can also unofficially be called an "Obaven" by some members of the community, derived from the Scottish Gaelic word "obair" meaning work, a tribute to the more official term "working couple", a portmanteau with the word "coven". Thus creating the wor... | they called "covens". Neopaganism In Wicca and other similar forms of neopagan witchcraft, such as Stregheria and Feri, a coven is a gathering or community of witches, like an affinity group, engagement group, or small covenant group. It is composed of a group of practitioners who gather together for rituals such as Dr... |
tried to enter the video game console market with the Amstrad GX4000, similar to what Commodore did at the same time with the C64 GS. The console, based on the Amstrad 464 Plus hardware, was a commercial failure, because it used outdated technology, and most games available for it were straight ports of CPC games that ... | London Stock Exchange, and doubled in size each year during the early '80s. Amstrad began marketing its own home computers in an attempt to capture the market from Commodore and Sinclair, with the Amstrad CPC range in 1984. The CPC 464 was launched in the UK, Ireland, France, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain and ... |
where it is applied to perform useful work. Power is defined formally as units of energy per unit time. In SI units: Since the development of technology, transmission and storage systems have been of immense interest to technologists and technology users. Electrical power With the widespread establishment of electrical... | all but the very shortest distances. From the 16th century through the industrial revolution to the end of the 19th century, mechanical power transmission was the norm. The oldest long-distance power transmission technology involved systems of push-rods or jerker lines (stängenkunst or feldstängen) connecting waterwhee... |
is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category2 station. It is on the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway; the North–South line (Nord-Süd-Strecke), comprising the Bebra–Fulda line north of Fulda, and the Kinzig Valley Railway and Fulda–Main Railway to the south; the Vogelsberg Railway, which connects to the hills of the ... | campaign in the 18th century, resulting in the current "Baroque City" status. This included a remodeling of Fulda Cathedral (1704–12) and of the Stadtschloss (Fulda Castle-Palace, 1707–12) by Johann Dientzenhofer. The city parish church, St. Blasius, was built between 1771 and 1785. In 1764 a porcelain factory was star... |
as interest rates for capital. The increase in voltage is achieved in AC circuits by using a step-up transformer. HVDC systems require relatively costly conversion equipment which may be economically justified for particular projects such as submarine cables and longer distance high capacity point-to-point transmission... | War I, with large electrical generating plants built by governments to provide power to munitions factories. Later these generating plants were connected to supply civil loads through long-distance transmission. Bulk power transmission Engineers design transmission networks to transport the energy as efficiently as pos... |
refused to acknowledge this successor's decade-long reign, he made no move against Rupert. On 29 June 1402 Wenceslaus was captured by Sigismund, who at first intended to escort him to Rome to have him crowned emperor, but Rupert heard of this plan and tried to prevent the passage to Italy, so that Sigismund had Wencesl... | that he had earlier granted, and mortgaged them to various nobles. The cities, however, were not powerless, and as executors of the public peace, they had developed into a potent military force. Moreover, as Charles IV had organised the cities into leagues, he had made it possible for them to cooperate in large-scale e... |
expanded the New York City Police Department's stop and frisk program, with a sixfold increase in documented stops. The policy was challenged in U.S. Federal Court, which ruled that the city's implementation of the policy violated citizens' rights under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and encouraged racial pro... | wants you to believe that erecting trade barriers will bring back good jobs. He's wrong on both counts." Bloomberg also said Trump's economic plans "would make it harder for small businesses to compete" and would "erode our influence in the world". Trump responded to the speech by condemning Bloomberg in a series of tw... |
arrangements using transformers (for instance, a two phase system using a Scott-T transformer). The amplitude of the voltage difference between two phases is (1.732...) times the amplitude of the voltage of the individual phases. The symmetric three-phase systems described here are simply referred to as three-phase sys... | of a cycle after one of the other conductors and one third of a cycle before the remaining conductor. This phase delay gives constant power transfer to a balanced linear load. It also makes it possible to produce a rotating magnetic field in an electric motor and generate other phase arrangements using transformers (fo... |
their king, Wenceslaus, deposed. On the next day the same four electors met at Rhens to ballot for Rupert as next German king, thus the majority of the college including the Elector Palatine's own vote. As the Imperial City of Aachen refused to let him enter through its gates, Rupert was crowned by Archbishop Frederick... | forging an alliance with Count Eberhard III of Württemberg, the Zähringen margrave Bernard I of Baden and several Swabian cities in 1405, Rupert was compelled to make certain concessions. The quarrel was complicated by the Papal Schism, but the king was just beginning to make some headway when he died at his castle of ... |
of Industry Canada Communist, Republican, and Citizen Group, a French parliamentary group Community Rehabilitation Company, a private-sector suppliers of offender rehabilitation services in England and Wales Constitutional Research Council, a Unionist, pro-Brexit funding organisation in Scotland and Northern Ireland Co... | increase energy efficiency in large energy users CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a reference manual published by CRC Press Cyclic redundancy check, a type of hash function used to produce a checksum in order to detect errors in data storage or transmission Organizations California Rehabilitation Center, a state ... |
the other hand form a small loop in the remaining section and draw it over the U-bend so that the loop forms a half hitch and stays there if the free end of the rope is pulled taut. Many people draw the small loop over facing the wrong way at least half of the time. Instead, make with the U a half-hitch around the othe... | the knot at the top, and shaking the rope when they reach the bottom. The shaking disconnects the knot at the top, allowing the longer section of rope to fall, meaning only a small amount of rope is retained by the anchor at the top of the cliff. Thin or slippery rope is unsuitable for such a knot, as it can easily sli... |
is also unreliable when used on a square or rectangular post, rather than round. The clove hitch is also commonly used in pioneering to start and finish a lashing such as the traditional square lashing, tripod lashing, round lashing and shear lashing. Tying The clove hitch is tied by first passing the running end of th... | also unreliable when used on a square or rectangular post, rather than round. The clove hitch is also commonly used in pioneering to start and finish a lashing such as the traditional square lashing, tripod lashing, round lashing and shear lashing. Tying The clove hitch is tied by first passing the running end of the r... |
000 <--- result (note the first four bits are the XOR with the divisor beneath, the rest of the bits are unchanged) 1011 <--- divisor ... 00111011101100 000 1011 00010111101100 000 1011 00000001101100 000 <--- note that the divisor moves over to align with the next 1 in the dividend (since quotient for that step was ze... | < data_length; i++) { const uint32_t lookupIndex = (crc32 ^ data[i]) & 0xff; crc32 = (crc32 >> 8) ^ CRCTable[lookupIndex]; // CRCTable is an array of 256 32-bit constants } // Finalize the CRC-32 value by inverting all the bits crc32 ^= 0xFFFFFFFFu; return crc32; } Mathematics Mathematical analysis of this division-lik... |
Tournament overview Source: NC = No classification DNQ = Did not qualify for the last event World Cup Source: (b) = Division B * = 10000 meter– = Did not participate'' Medals won References External links Photos of Jochem Uytdehaage 1976 births Living people Dutch male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of the Netherl... | 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results. Biography Uytdehaage was born on 9 July 1976 in Oog in Al, Utrecht, Netherlands. He was the 2002 European Allround champion. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events and the silver in the 1500 me... |
Dutch allround championship. At the European Allround Championships she has won various medals. Five times she came in third in the overall ranking. In 2005, she won the silver medal which was her best result at the European Championships. In 2001, she also came in third in the overall ranking on the World Allround Cha... | Dutch allround championship. At the European Allround Championships she has won various medals. Five times she came in third in the overall ranking. In 2005, she won the silver medal which was her best result at the European Championships. In 2001, she also came in third in the overall ranking on the World Allround Cha... |
in the Lower Palatinate, and in Neuburg and Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate. The Elector Palatine, now based in Heidelberg, adopted Lutheranism in the 1530s; when the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the Electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of t... | brother of Louis XIV; on this basis, Louis claimed half of the Palatinate for France. The direct heir to the Palatinate was Philip William, Catholic Count Palatine of Neuburg, Duke of Jülich and Berg. His eldest daughter Eleonore married Emperor Leopold, while another, Maria Anna, married Charles II of Spain in 1690. N... |
gliders and paragliders are all types of glider aircraft. For a glider to generate lift, it must first gain and then maintain sufficient forward air speed. Launching a glider gives it the initial forward airspeed to start flying. This is often done by towing the aircraft into the air on a long line, using either a grou... | largely recreational. Free-flying ballooning using coal gas (which has about half the lifting power of hydrogen) became a popular sport. Gliders were used mainly for aerodynamic research until their sporting use was developed in the 1920s. During the two World Wars, tethered barrage balloons were made and deployed in l... |
Birkenfeld, Neuburg and Sulzbach. When the senior branch of the Palatinate branch died out in 1559, the Electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France. The N... | Throughout history, members of the royal house have reigned as: Dukes of Merania (1153–1180/82), Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria (1180–1918), Counts Palatine of the Rhine (1214–1803 and 1816–1918), Margraves of Brandenburg (1323–1373), Counts of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland (1345–1433), Elector-Archbishops of Colo... |
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