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of Persia, may have ruled briefly in 465 BC Darius, son of Artaxerxes II, crown prince and junior king of his father, father of Arbupales Kings, princes, and politicians Darius (praetorian prefect), Praetorian prefect of the East in 436 to 437 AD Darius I of Media Atropatene Darius II of Persis Darius the Mede Darius o... | (423 to 404 BC) Darius III (Codomannus, 380 to 330 BC) Crown princes Darius (son of Xerxes I), crown prince of Persia, may have ruled briefly in 465 BC Darius, son of Artaxerxes II, crown prince and junior king of his father, father of Arbupales Kings, princes, and politicians Darius (praetorian prefect), Praetorian pr... |
was not always a clear distinction between "private" and "public" cases, and thus a career as a logographer opened the way for Demosthenes to embark on his political career. An Athenian logographer could remain anonymous, which enabled him to serve personal interests, even if it prejudiced the client. It also left him ... | advice, but finally Harpalus entered Athens. He was imprisoned after a proposal of Demosthenes and Phocion, despite the dissent of Hypereides, an anti-Macedonian statesman and former ally of Demosthenes. Additionally, the ekklesia decided to take control of Harpalus' money, which was entrusted to a committee presided o... |
also contemplated defending Catiline in court. Eventually, Catiline was acquitted. The author of the Commentariolum Petitionis, possibly Cicero's brother, Quintus Cicero, suggests that Catiline was only acquitted by the fact that "he left the court as poor as some of his judges had been before the trial," implying that... | found, far in advance of his men, among the dead bodies of the enemy; a most glorious death, had he thus fallen for his country.– Florus, Epitome de Tito Livio (IV, 1) After Catiline's death, many of the poor still regarded him with respect and did not view him as the traitor and villain that Cicero claimed he was. The... |
Caesar (100–44 BC) was a Roman general and dictator. Caesar or Cæsar may also refer to: Places Caesar, Zimbabwe Caesar Creek State Park, in southwestern Ohio People Caesar (given name) Caesar (surname) Caesar (title), a title used by Roman and Byzantine emperors, and also at times by Ottoman emperors, derived from the ... | rock band Caesars (band), a Swedish garage rock band "Caesar" (song), a 2010 song by I Blame Coco "Caesar", a 1993 song by Iggy Pop from American Caesar Other uses in art and entertainment Caesar (Mercury Theatre), 1937 stage production of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre Caesar (video game), a 1992 city-building compute... |
store becoming the predominant mode of software distribution. It continues in some cases with bundled or pre-installed software, where many extra programs of dubious quality and functionality are included with a piece of hardware. Shovelware video games Low-budget, poor-quality video games, released in the hopes of bei... | and 6–16 times larger than the hard disks commonly fitted to personal computers in 1990. This outsized capacity meant that very few users would install the disc's entire contents, encouraging producers to fill them by including as much existing content as possible, often without regard to the quality of the material. A... |
United States. Most, though not all, are named after two brothers: military hero George Rogers Clark in the Midwest, and explorer William Clark in the West. Clark County, Arkansas | Kentucky Clark County, Missouri Clark County, Nevada, the most populous county bearing the name Clark, containing Las Vegas Clark County, Ohio Clark County, South Dakota Clark County, Washington Clark County, Wisconsin See also Clarke |
by the original film cast, but which had been edited or rearranged for time and content and would not lock to picture. In reality, however, soundtrack producers remain ambiguous about this distinction, and titles in which the music on the album does lock to picture may be labeled as OCS and music from an album that doe... | is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. Current dictionary entries for soundtrack document ... |
blocking, mise-en-scène is also a term sometimes used among professional screenwriters to indicate descriptive (action) paragraphs between the dialog. Key aspects Set design An important element of "putting in the scene" is set design—the setting of a scene and the objects (props) visible in a scene. Set design can be ... | mood or relationships between elements in the story world. Composition Composition is the organization of objects, actors and space within the frame. One of the most important concepts with the regard to the composition of a film is maintaining a balance of symmetry. This refers to having an equal distribution of light... |
these differences in interpretation means that ATM applications typically use a middleware to even out the differences among various platforms. With the onset of Windows operating systems and XFS on ATMs, the software applications have the ability to become more intelligent. This has created a new breed of ATM applicat... | effort by Colorado National Bank of Denver and Kranzley and Company of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 2012, a new ATM at Royal Bank of Scotland allowed customers to withdraw cash up to £130 without a card by inputting a six-digit code requested through their smartphones. Location ATMs can be placed at any location but are... |
Electronic Stability Control (ESC/ESP), traction control (TCS) and automatic four-wheel drive. Medical equipment uses embedded systems for monitoring, and various medical imaging (PET, Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), CT, and MRI) for non-invasive internal inspections. Embedded systems within medical... | costs than bipolar chips. MOS chips further increased in complexity at a rate predicted by Moore's law, leading to large-scale integration (LSI) with hundreds of transistors on a single MOS chip by the late 1960s. The application of MOS LSI chips to computing was the basis for the first microprocessors, as engineers be... |
to be Young! "The Young Ones" (song), title song to the film and a number-one 1962 single, by Cliff Richard and the Shadows The Young Ones (album), the soundtrack album to the 1961 film The Young Ones (1973 film), a 1973 Taiwanese film, spoken in Mandarin The Young Ones (TV series), a 1980s British sitcom about four st... | Cliff Richard, the American title is It's Wonderful to be Young! "The Young Ones" (song), title song to the film and a number-one 1962 single, by Cliff Richard and the Shadows The Young Ones (album), the soundtrack album to the 1961 film The Young Ones (1973 film), a 1973 Taiwanese film, spoken in Mandarin The Young |
machine that requires the user to deal with many details in the solution of a problem. At the extreme opposite are interfaces that can perform very complex tasks with little human intervention but become obsolete if requirements change slightly. Some esoteric programming languages, such as Brainfuck, are specifically r... | languages, such as Brainfuck, are specifically referred to as "Turing tarpits" because they deliberately implement the minimum functionality necessary to be classified as Turing complete languages. Using such languages is a form of mathematical recreation: programmers can work out how to achieve basic programming const... |
specifically attributed the authorship of the story to Hubbard. When John Carmichael, the president of the Church of Scientology of New York, was asked about the Xenu story, he said, as reported in the September 9, 2007, edition of The Daily Telegraph: "That's not what we believe". When asked directly about the Xenu st... | the world. The hundreds of billions of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thet... |
Lenin, in elaborating his theory. Philosophically, his most important reflections emerge on the concept of "contradiction" (maodun). In two major essays, On Contradiction and On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, he adopts the positivist-empiricist idea (shared by Engels) that contradiction is pre... | is dominated by a wide range of contradictions, this calls for a wide range of varying strategies. Revolution is necessary to fully resolve antagonistic contradictions such as those between labour and capital. Contradictions arising within the revolutionary movement call for ideological correction to prevent them from ... |
language dow, the ISO 639-3 code for the Doyayo language of Cameroon Places Dow, Illinois, U.S. Dow City, Iowa, U.S. Dow, Kentucky, U.S. Dow Village (disambiguation), two places in Trinidad and Tobago Downingtown station, Pennsylvania, U.S., Amtrak station code DOW Dow Nunatak, Antarctica Dow Peak, Antarctica Other use... | Dow Jones Industrial Average, or simply the Dow, a stock market index Dow Inc., an American commodity chemical company Dow Chemical Company, a subsidiary, an American multinational chemical corporation Dow Breweries, a former Canadian brewing company Ethnicities and languages Dow people, an ethnic group of Brazil Dow l... |
stock, until 2007 when an extended takeover battle saw News Corporation acquire the business. The company then became a subsidiary of News Corporation. It was reported on August 1, 2007, that the bid had been successful after an extended period of uncertainty about shareholder agreement, with the transaction finalized ... | Indices Dow Jones sold a 90% stake in its Index business for $607.5M to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in February 2010. A few of the most widely used include: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, "Dow 30", or often simply "The Dow") Dow Jones Transportation Average Dow Jones Utilit... |
marked within the Unitatis Redintegratio. This document marked several key reforms within the Catholic approach: I. ‘Separated brethren’ was the new term for non-Catholics, as opposed to the previously used ‘heretics’ II. Both Catholic and non-Catholic elements are held responsible for the schism between Catholicism an... | Rev. Dr. S.A.E. Nababan, Indonesian theologian General secretaries Since the World Council of Churches was officially founded in 1948, the following men have served as general secretary: Commissions and teams There are two complementary approaches to ecumenism: dialogue and action. The Faith and Order Movement and Life... |
and empress of Russia. He was a younger brother of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who succeeded to the throne in 1801, and of Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. Riasanovsky says he was, "the most handsome man in Europe, but also a charmer who enjoyed feminine company and was often at his best with the men." In... | of Russian railways. In 1833, the Ministry of National Education, Sergey Uvarov, devised a program of "Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality" as the guiding principle of the regime. It was a reactionary policy based on orthodoxy in religion, autocracy in government, and the state-founding role on the Russian nationality... |
such a utility overnight, Thompson actually corrected bugs and made improvements for about an hour. The next day he presented the program to McIlroy, who said it was exactly what he wanted. Thompson's account may explain the belief that grep was written overnight. Thompson wrote the first version in PDP-11 assembly lan... | in paragraph styles "GREP styles". agrep agrep (approximate grep) matches even when the text only approximately fits the search pattern. This following invocation finds netmasks in file myfile, but also any other word that can be derived from it, given no more than two substitutions. agrep -2 netmasks myfile This examp... |
section. The following year a riot exploded in the town and he was involved in the disorders and arrested, but was discharged after three months of prison. Immediately after his detention ended, his father brought him to Salerno, the town in which the Royal family and the government had taken refuge after the armistice... | a context in which some forces were allegedly manoeuvering for a coup d'état in Italy. International relations The following year in Belgrade, Berlinguer met with Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, with a view to further developing his relationships with the major communist parties of Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1976,... |
the list could be debated. Moreover, while the principles themselves are not subject to debate, the interpretations of those principles are. For example, there has been extensive debate over the meaning of socialism. On the other hand, the principles were proclaimed as a sign of adherence to the communist ideology, thu... | The Four Cardinal Principles () were stated by Deng Xiaoping in March 1979, during the early phase of Reform and Opening-up, and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China. The Four Cardinal Principles were one of Deng's Two Basic Points, the other of which was Reform and... |
and stood tall. By rotating the antenna, the direction of the received interfering radio source (static) could be pinpointed. A small shed to the side of the antenna housed an analog pen-and-paper recording system. After recording signals from all directions for several months, Jansky eventually categorized them into t... | more and more difficult (see Open spectrum). Negotiations to defend the frequency allocation for parts of the spectrum most useful for observing the universe are coordinated in the Scientific Committee on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science. Some of the more notable frequency bands used by radio... |
its earlier appearance on The Paul Simon Songbook, "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" appears here as a "folk combo that produces a bright, almost bluegrass sound". "A Simple Desultory Philippic" is a "satirical rant about the singer's confrontations with a wide variety of pop-culture personalities and phenomena". ... | complains of various woes in his life, which can be "readily eased" by purchasing the titular device. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a brief vignette "made up of variations on a two-bar ostinato figure," in which the protagonist goes about a carefree morning. "The Dangling Conversation" concerns a dy... |
hit "The Sound of Silence", is used three times in the film. Track listing Personnel Paul Simon – lead vocals, guitar Art Garfunkel – lead vocals Dave Grusin – additional music Charts Certifications See also For tracks 1, 7 and 14: Sounds of Silence For tracks 5, 9 and 11: Parsley, | first is an instrumental, while the second is abbreviated, tapering off as it does in the film. However, the other major song of the album, the 1965 hit "The Sound of Silence", is used three times in the film. Track listing Personnel Paul Simon – lead vocals, guitar Art Garfunkel – lead vocals Dave Grusin – additional ... |
Mam'zelle Nitouche (1883) Richard Heuberger (1850–1914) Der Opernball (1898) Jenő Huszka (1875–1960) Tilos a bemenet (No entry) Bob herceg (Prince Bob) Aranyvirág Gül Baba Tündérszerelem (Fairly love) Rébusz báró (Baron Rebus) Erzsébet (Elisabeth) Lili bárónö (Baroness Lili) Mária föhadnagy (Corporal Maria) Gyergyoi bá... | bacio La maschera nuda Paul Lincke (1866–1946) Frau Luna (1899) André Messager (1853–1929) Les p'tites Michu, 1897 Véronique, 1898 Monsieur Beaucaire, 1919 Coups de roulis, 1928 Carl Millöcker (1842–1899) Das verwunschene Schloss (1878) Die Dubarry (1879, major revision (T. Mackeben) 1938) Der Bettelstudent (1882) Gasp... |
the label; on one occasion, he and Garfunkel brought a tape recorder into a meeting with Davis, who was giving a "fatherly talk" on speeding up production, in order to laugh at it later. Meanwhile, director Mike Nichols, then filming The Graduate, had become fascinated with the duo's past two efforts, listening to them... | the American scene when their hit single "The Sound of Silence" made waves on radio in 1965, during a period in which the duo had broken up due to the failure of their debut release, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964). Following another release, Sounds of Silence (1965), the duo recorded and released Parsley, Sage, Rosem... |
well-known parody number from the work is the song for coloratura, "Poor wand'ring one", which is generally thought to burlesque Gounod's waltz-songs, though the music critic of The Times called it "mock-Donizetti". In a scene in Act II, Mabel addresses the police, who chant their response in the manner of an Anglican ... | the estate, intending to take revenge for the Major-General's lie ("With cat-like tread"). Just then, Major-General Stanley appears, sleepless with guilt, and the pirates also hide ("Hush, hush! not a word"), while the Major-General listens to the soothing breeze ("Sighing softly to the river"). The girls come looking ... |
was instead succeeded by Romanos Argyros, husband of his daughter Zoë. Family Constantine's father, Romanos II, was the sixth Byzantine emperor of the Macedonian dynasty. After the death of his first wife, Bertha (who took the name Eudocia), daughter of Hugh of Arles, he fell in love with and married an innkeeper's dau... | were equals, but Basil devoted himself to the responsibilities of his office and emerged as the senior Basileus. Constantine had no comparable interest in state business, and never developed any. Apart from participating in a military campaign in 989, which ended without any combat, he devoted his years as Basil’s coll... |
before 1070. By 1074, the forces of the Earl of Shrewsbury were ravaging Deheubarth. The killing of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn in 1075 led to civil war and gave the Normans an opportunity to seize lands in North Wales. In 1081 Gruffudd ap Cynan, who had just won the throne of Gwynedd from Trahaearn ap Caradog at the Battle of M... | lead, as well as modest amounts of some other metals such as zinc and silver. When the mines were no longer practical or profitable, they were abandoned. Roman economic development was concentrated in southeastern Britain, with no significant industries located in Wales. This was largely a matter of circumstance, as Wa... |
defeated so easily at Bordeaux and Garonne, despite winning 11 years earlier at the Battle of Toulouse, because at Toulouse he had managed a surprise attack against an overconfident and unprepared foe: the Umayyad forces were mostly infantry, and what cavalry they did have were never mobilized. As Herman of Carinthia w... | Charles had no standing army, and the independent spirit of the Frank warriors who followed his standard, it seems most probable that it was not in his power to adopt the cautious policy of watching the invaders, and wearing out their strength by delay. So dreadful and so widespread were the ravages of the Saracenic li... |
molecule is lost another is pulled along by the processes of cohesion and tension. Transpiration pull, utilizing capillary action and the inherent surface tension of water, is the primary mechanism of water movement in plants. However, it is not the only mechanism involved. Any use of water in leaves forces water to mo... | water transport system). The endodermis can also provide an upwards pressure, forcing water out of the roots when transpiration is not enough of a driver. Once plants had evolved this level of controlled water transport, they were truly homoiohydric, able to extract water from their environment through root-like organs... |
for all is in general not enough to ensure the existence of a fixed point, as is shown by the map which lacks a fixed point. However, if is compact, then this weaker assumption does imply the existence and uniqueness of a fixed point, that can be easily found as a minimizer of , indeed, a minimizer exists by compactnes... | The Banach fixed-point theorem is then used to show that this integral operator has a unique fixed point. One consequence of the Banach fixed-point theorem is that small Lipschitz perturbations of the identity are bi-lipschitz homeomorphisms. Let Ω be an open set of a Banach space E; let I : Ω → E denote the identity (... |
dance. The lengthy drunken soliloquy by Frosch (a comedy speaking role) in act 3 also permits variety in performance. Roles Synopsis Act 1 Eisenstein's apartment Gabriel von Eisenstein, a Viennese man-about-town, has been sentenced to eight days in prison for insulting an official, partially due to the incompetence of ... | Eisenstein had abandoned Falke, very drunk and dressed in a bat-costume, in the center of town, exposing him to ridicule the next day. As part of his scheme, Falke has invited Frank, Adele, and Rosalinde to come the ball, all concealing their identities as well. Rosalinde pretends to be a masked Hungarian countess, Eis... |
replacing each fixed-length input symbol with the corresponding variable-length prefix-free output codeword. The length of each codeword is approximately proportional to the negative logarithm of the probability of occurrence of that codeword. Therefore, the most common symbols use the shortest codes. According to Shan... | types of entropy coding creates and assigns a unique prefix-free code to each unique symbol that occurs in the input. These entropy encoders then compress data by replacing each fixed-length input symbol with the corresponding variable-length prefix-free output codeword. The length of each codeword is approximately pro... |
of Constantinople (an event of the 4th Crusade) after the completion of the town's cathedral. The cathedral contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still holds a portion of the relics of the apostle. A golden reliquary which originally housed his skull and another one used for processions through Amalfi on holy ... | of some devastating setbacks it had a population of some 70,000 to 80,000 reaching a peak about the turn of the millennium, during the reign of Duke Manso (966–1004). Under his line of dukes, Amalfi remained independent, except for a brief period of Salernitan dependency under Guaimar IV. In 1073, the republic fell to ... |
secure a majority in the 1708 British general election. The Duchess of Marlborough was angered when Abigail moved into rooms at Kensington Palace that Sarah considered her own, though she rarely if ever used them. In July 1708, she came to court with a bawdy poem written by a Whig propagandist, probably Arthur Maynwari... | and favoured the landed interest of the country gentry, while the Whigs were aligned with commercial interests and Protestant Dissenters. As a committed Anglican, Anne was inclined to favour the Tories. Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, an... |
treason (which carried the penalty of death). Power passed to five politicians known collectively by a whimsical acronym as the Cabal—Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury) and Lauderdale. In fact, the Cabal rarely acted in concert, and the court was often divided between two factions ... | by the Anglican Bishop of London, William Laud. He was brought up in the care of the Protestant Countess of Dorset, though his godparents included his maternal uncle Louis XIII and his maternal grandmother, Marie de' Medici, the Dowager Queen of France, both of whom were Catholics. At birth, Charles automatically becam... |
literature. Such an expansion in the meaning of the term had begun centuries earlier among the Byzantine Greeks, as evidenced in documents from the 8th century. In the Western languages before the 16th century, Saracen was commonly used to refer to Arab Muslims, and the terms "Muslim" and "Islam" were generally not use... | them. These Saracens, located in the northern Hejaz, were described as people with a certain military ability who were opponents of the Roman Empire and who were classified by the Romans as barbarians. The Saracens are described as forming the equites (heavy cavalry) from Phoenicia and Thamud. In one document, the defe... |
is also necessary for the plaintiff to establish the market relationship between conspirators to prove their conduct is within the per se rule. In early cases, it was easier for plaintiffs to show market relationship, or dominance, by tailoring market definition, even if it ignored fundamental principles of economics. ... | test, asking whether the challenged practice promotes or suppresses market competition. Unlike with per se violations, intent and motive are relevant when predicting future consequences. The rule of reason is said to be the "traditional framework of analysis" to determine whether Section 1 is violated. The court analyz... |
deposition, whereas new elements were added to the thicker inner layer as it grew. Scales are ridged with growth lines, implying that they grew episodically. A few taxa experimented with different approaches to scale formation; some were only very weakly calcified and may have mainly been organic in nature. They were n... | two segments of the machaeridians were commonly different from the rest, bearing fewer spiny projections. The plumulitids are flattened from above and looks much like the coat of mail armour of chitons. The two other families are laterally compressed and some lepidocoleids formed a dorsal hinge, which make these machae... |
damage or destruction of real or tangible personal property, caused by negligence, willful destruction, or act of nature. | mischief Criminal damage in English law Arson Vandalism References Criminal law Property insurance Vandalism |
was used in Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chubut, Córdoba, Mendoza, Río Negro, San Juan, Santiago del Estero Provinces and Buenos Aires City. Australia Elections for the Australian Senate allow for joint Senate tickets, which "contains members that have been endorsed by more than one registered political party". Examples of fus... | Hong Kong, candidates in election may list their "political affiliation" on ballots, and there is no restriction regarding the number of political parties or organisations a candidate report to be affiliated with. For example, in the 2004 Legislative Council election Chan Kam Lam, of the Democratic Alliance for the Bet... |
hysterical and nervous condition is an assault occasioning actual bodily harm". This was followed by the Court of Appeal in R v Constanza, and the House of Lords which confirmed the principle in R v Burstow, R v Ireland. Ireland caused three women to suffer psychiatric illness. Burstow's victim was fearful of personal ... | had been threatened with further violence, and that he was very frightened. There was no medical or psychiatric evidence to support the allegation. There was no evidence that he was in a state of shock at any time prior to receiving the injuries which he suffered as a result of falling from the window." Hobhouse LJ. sa... |
Proposed penalties for violating the CBDTPA ranged from five to twenty years in prison, and fines between $50,000 and $1 million. Richard Stallman criticized this act due to the restrictions that it would place in the immediate and long-term future on free software, dubbing the bill the "Consume But Don't Try Programmi... | Judiciary Committee, had stated that he could "not support" the proposed legislation and, as chairman, intended to block consideration of the controversial bill. This essentially killed the bill in 2002. Proposed penalties for violating the CBDTPA ranged from five to twenty years in prison, and fines between $50,000 an... |
Mountain ranges add to the range of habitats found in the county. Important habitats in the uplands include blanket bog, heath, glacial lakes, and upland grasslands. Cork has the 13th-highest county peak in Ireland. Rivers and lakes Three rivers, the Bandon, Blackwater, and Lee, and their valleys dominate central Cork.... | and 1997, which identified 125 rivers and 32 lakes covered by the regulations. Land and forestry Like many parts of Munster, Cork has fertile agricultural land and many bog and peatlands. Cork has around 74,000 hectares of peatlands, which amount to 9.8% of the county's total land area. Cork has the highest share of th... |
the work unimpeded by military action, as Abercromby failed to advance directly to the fort on July 7. Abercromby's second-in-command, Brigadier General George Howe, had been killed when his column encountered a French reconnaissance troop. Abercromby "felt [Howe's death] most heavily" and may have been unwilling to ac... | most heavily" and may have been unwilling to act immediately. On July 8, 1758, Abercromby ordered a frontal attack against the hastily assembled French works. Abercromby tried to move rapidly against the few French defenders, opting to forgo field cannon and relying instead on the numerical superiority of his 16,000 tr... |
war and the "[liberation of] all slaves", adding that Tens of thousands of escaped slaves nonetheless joined Sherman's marches through Georgia and the Carolinas as refugees, and their fate soon became a pressing military and political issue. Some abolitionists accused Sherman of doing little to alleviate the precarious... | a direct assault only at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. The Confederate victory at Kennesaw Mountain did little to halt Sherman's advance towards Atlanta. In July, the cautious Johnston was replaced by the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who played to Sherman's strength by challenging him to direct battles on open gr... |
11 May 1876, after stopping off at Portugal. At the end of the tour, Queen Victoria was given the title Empress of India by Parliament, in part as a result of the tour's success. Edward was regarded worldwide as an arbiter of men's fashions. He made wearing tweed, Homburg hats and Norfolk jackets fashionable, and popul... | British favourite for Sunday lunch. He was not a heavy drinker, though he did drink champagne and, occasionally, port. Edward was a patron of the arts and sciences and helped found the Royal College of Music. He opened the college in 1883 with the words, "Class can no longer stand apart from class ... I claim for music... |
several times in television scripts. His remains are interred at the Union Cemetery in Fort Edward, NY alongside Jane McCrea and her cousin Sara McNeil. Songs Inspired by the history and legend, Rich Nardin wrote (circa 1980) the song "Piper's Refrain", about the end of Campbell's story. The song was first released on ... | British took the fort a year later). The legend associated with Campbell is that a number of years prior—while still living in Scotland—Campbell gave shelter to a stranger who turned out to have killed Duncan's cousin. Faced with the conflict between betraying a guest or taking vengeance for the death of his cousin, Ca... |
was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the emerging Papal States from 29 May 757 to his death. He first served as a Roman deacon and was frequently employed by his brother, Pope Stephen II, in negotiations with the Lombard kings. Rise Paul was a Roman aristocrat and member of the Orsini family. He and his brother Stephen ... | 70028 June 767) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the emerging Papal States from 29 May 757 to his death. He first served as a Roman deacon and was frequently employed by his brother, Pope Stephen II, in negotiations with the Lombard kings. Rise Paul was a Roman aristocrat and member of the Orsini family. He and his ... |
himself into the sea. When the tyrant brought the ship's crew to the dolphin's monument and ordered them to swear by the departed spirit of the dolphin that Arion was dead, Arion came out of the monument. In amazement, wondering by what divinity he had been saved, the ship's crew was silent. The tyrant ordered them to ... | sent by Apollo to rescue Arion. At the end of the song, Arion threw himself into the sea rather than be killed, but one of the dolphins saved his life and carried him to safety at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Cape Tainaron. When he reached land, being eager for his journey, he failed to return the dolphin to the sea an... |
boat T1, a torpedo boat in the Yugoslav Navy, 1921–1941 T1 tanker a mass-produced tanker used during and after World War II Tanks and weapons T1 Light Tank, a U.S. prototype tank EE-T1 Osório, a 1985 Brazilian main battle tank AC NM AE T1 mine, a Brazilian anti-tank blast mine AP NM AE T1 mine, a Brazilian anti-personn... | in Toronto, Canada North Shore & Western Line, a commuter rail line in Sydney, Australia Île-de-France tramway Line 1, a.k.a. T1, a tramway near Paris, France LSWR T1 class, an 1888 0-4-4T steam tank locomotives class Pennsylvania Railroad class T1, a 1942 4-4-4-4 steam locomotive class Reading T-1, a 1945 4-8-4 steam ... |
extracted. TS0-TS31: Data traffic — Often referred to as Clear Channel E1 or Unchannelized, it is used where no framing is required, timeslot extraction is not required and the full bandwidth (2 Mb/s) is required. Hierarchy levels The PDH based on the E0 signal rate is designed so that each higher level can multiplex a... | encoded with pulses using a method avoiding long periods without polarity changes. The line data rate is 2.048 Mbit/s (full duplex, i.e. 2.048 Mbit/s downstream and 2.048 Mbit/s upstream) which is split into 32 timeslots, each being allocated 8 bits in turn. Thus each timeslot sends and receives an 8-bit PCM sample, us... |
hand-launched Mexican unmanned electronic surveillance drone Junkers E.I, the Idflieg designation for the 1916 Junkers J1 monoplane LVG E.I, a 1915 German two-seat monoplane NFW E.I, a 1917 German monoplane fighter Pfalz E.I, a Morane-Saulnier H monoplane built under licence for Germany Siemens-Schuckert E.I, a 1915 Ge... | E I, a German steam engines locomotive model EMC E1, a diesel locomotive LB&SCR E1 class, an 1874 British 0-6-0 steam locomotive NCC Class E1, a Northern Counties Committee Irish steam locomotive NER Class E1, an 1898 class of small 0-6-0T steam locomotive PRR E1, an American PRR 4-4-2 steam locomotive SP&S Class E-1, ... |
the Grand Chamberlain, remains unknown. When Procopius first mentions Narses, he was serving as Emperor Justinian I's steward in 530. Narses was a high treasurer who dealt with the emperor's finances and payments from the imperial treasury. He rose through the ranks, became the commander of the emperor's eunuch bodygua... | in the officium of the Grand Chamberlain, remains unknown. When Procopius first mentions Narses, he was serving as Emperor Justinian I's steward in 530. Narses was a high treasurer who dealt with the emperor's finances and payments from the imperial treasury. He rose through the ranks, became the commander of the emper... |
or brothers of those killed in war or missing in action; conscientious objectors and ministers; doctors and others in vital health professions, and judges of courts of record and elected officials". Hollings stated that recruiting for the armed forces had fallen short of requirements by an estimated 23,000 people in 19... | opposition to the nomination of Earl Butz for United States Secretary of Agriculture. In 1972, Hollings and Republican William Saxbe sponsored a resolution bestowing early United States recognition on Bangladesh as the Nixon administration sought a policy of delaying recognition until "there were commensurate diplomati... |
sling. "The Philistine cursed David by his gods", but David replies: "This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there i... | story The Israelites and Philistines face each other; Goliath makes his challenge to single combat; David volunteers to fight Goliath; David selects five smooth stones from a creek-bed to be used in his sling; David defeats Goliath, the Philistines flee the battlefield. Additions David is sent by his father to bring fo... |
mathematics". In another poll of readers that was conducted by Physics World in 2004, Euler's identity tied with Maxwell's equations (of electromagnetism) as the "greatest equation ever". At least three books in popular mathematics have been published about Euler's identity: Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mat... | that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence". And Paul Nahin, a professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, who has written a book dedicated to Euler's formula and its applications in Fourier analysis, desc... |
the original implementation of the program and its AIML knowledge base. Free AIML sets in several languages have been developed and made available by the user community. There are AIML interpreters available in Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C#, Pascal, and other languages (see below ). A semi-formal specification and a W3C ... | AIML interpreters are offered under a free or open source license, many "Alicebot clones" have been created based upon the original implementation of the program and its AIML knowledge base. Free AIML sets in several languages have been developed and made available by the user community. There are AIML interpreters ava... |
author. Caspar Olevianus (1536–1587) was formerly asserted as a co-author of the document, though this theory has been largely discarded by modern scholarship. Johann Sylvan, Adam Neuser, Johannes Willing, Thomas Erastus, Michael Diller, Johannes Brunner, Tilemann Mumius, Petrus Macheropoeus, Johannes Eisenmenger, Imma... | were still carried by train, not by truck. Heidelberg had the untouched Wehrmacht barracks, the "Grossdeutschland Kaserne" which the US Army occupied soon after, renaming it the Campbell Barracks. History after 1945 In 1945, the university was reopened relatively quickly on the initiative of a small group of professors... |
Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India in Westminster Abbey on 12 May 1937, the date previously scheduled for Edward VIII. Elizabeth's crown was made of platinum and was set with the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Edward and Simpson married and became the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but whil... | but a little self-consciously regal". The tour was designed to bolster trans-Atlantic support in the event of war, and to affirm Canada's status as an independent kingdom sharing with Britain the same person as monarch. According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounte... |
objections by the Asian-American community prompted them to reset the opera in Renaissance-era Milan, eliminating all references to Japan. Reviewers felt that the change resolved the issue. Modernised words and phrases Modern productions update some of the words and phrases in The Mikado. For example, two songs in the ... | his stay. A Japanese journalist covering the prince's stay attended a proscribed performance and confessed himself "deeply and pleasingly disappointed." Expecting "real insults" to his country, he had found only "bright music and much fun." After World War II, The Mikado was staged in Japan in a number of private perfo... |
Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818–1889) Prince Charles, Duke of Penthièvre (1820–1828) Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884–1954), grandson of Queen Victoria Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903–1983), former Belgian regent, second son of Albert I, King of the Belgians and Duchess Elisabeth Prince C... | of Viana (1421–1461) Prince Charles of Castile, later Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Prince Charles d'Aremberg (died 1669), definitor-general and Commissary of the Capuchin order Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (1660–1661), son of James, Duke of York (later King James II of England) Charles Stuart, Duke of... |
equal to 1 in2). To determine the stride of a pacing gait, measure from the tip (just beyond the fingers or toes in the direction of travel, disregarding claw marks) of one set of fore/hind tracks to the tip of the next set. By taking careful stride and track-size measurements, one can usually determine what species of... | but of the order Diprotodontia. The Virginia opossum is known in Mexico as tlacuache, tacuachi, and tlacuachi, from the Nahuatl word tlacuatzin. Range The Virginia opossum's ancestors evolved in South America, but spread into North America as part of the Great American Interchange, which occurred mainly after the forma... |
over Troubled Water" also peaked at No. 1 as singles in their studio versions, and "The Boxer" peaked as a single at No. 7. Reception Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits peaked on the U.S. albums chart at No. 5. On the UK Album Chart, it was a No. 2 hit. The album has proven a long and durable seller, currently being c... | included on the album. The remaining ten studio songs comprise nine singles released between 1965 and 1972, "America" being issued as a single several years after its appearance as a track on the Bookends album, and one album track, "Bookends" (without its parent song "Old Friends"). All the singles included, except "A... |
Mandala Vaatikas or Sacred Gardens were designed using the same principles. Many of the sacred geometry principles of the human body and of ancient architecture were compiled into the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The latter drawing was itself based on the much older writings of the Roman architect Vitruv... | writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius. In Islam The geometric designs in Islamic art are often built on combinations of repeated squares and circles, which may be overlapped and interlaced, as can arabesques (with which they are often combined), to form intricate and complex patterns, including a wide variety of te... |
of Inverness and Baron Killarney. He began to take on more royal duties. He represented his father, and toured coal mines, factories, and railyards. Through such visits he acquired the nickname of the "Industrial Prince". His stammer, and his embarrassment over it, together with a tendency to shyness, caused him to app... | later years of his reign and died of a coronary thrombosis in 1952. He was succeeded by his elder daughter, Elizabeth. Early life The future George VI was born at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. His father was Prince George, Duke of York (lat... |
of the 1965 LP release. The mono version was released on CD. The lyrics for the anti-war song "The Side of a Hill" were incorporated into the Simon & Garfunkel arrangement of "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Later in 1965 and in early 1966, following the success in the US of "The Sound ... | 1965 liner notes to the album comment of the songs that "there are some I would not write today", but that they "played a role in the transition" to his position as a musician at that time. The album cover shows Simon and his then-girlfriend, Kathy Chitty, sitting on "narrow streets of cobblestone" in London, the city ... |
the white habits that he designed from a medley of medieval types. These white robes of heavy material stressed the nuns' other-worldliness amid the exotic native surroundings. The chief native characters were robed in brilliant colours, particularly the generals in jewels and in rich silks. Other native characters bro... | of her own caused by their surroundings, which seem to magnify emotions. Briony suffers from ill health, and Philippa loses herself in the environment and ends up planting the vegetable garden with flowers instead. Ruth, already highly strung, becomes increasingly jealous of Clodagh and obsessed with Mr Dean, leading h... |
daughter Myfanwy and six letters sent by Robert Frost to her husband. Commemorations Thomas is commemorated in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, by memorial windows in the churches at Steep and at Eastbury in Berkshire, a blue plaque at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, south London, where he was born and a Lo... | his wife Helen and their two children at Elses Farm near Sevenoaks, Kent. He rented a tiny cottage nearby to Davies, and nurtured his writing as best he could. On one occasion, Thomas arranged for the manufacture, by a local wheelwright, of a makeshift wooden leg for Davies. In 1906 the family moved to Steep, East Hamp... |
French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerardus Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570. Schöner's concepts influenced the Dieppe school of mapmakers, notably in their representation of Jave la Grande.Terra Australis was depicted on the mid-16th-century Dieppe maps... | reasons and arguments to yield in its geometric proportions, size and weight, and importance to neither of the other two, nor possibly to be lesser or smaller, otherwise the constitution of the world could not hold together at its centre". The Flemish geographer and cartographer, Cornelius Wytfliet, wrote concerning th... |
sept, considered part of the Glynns. In addition to that sept and that of O'Quinn, both of which were native, the Scottish Gallowglass septs of MacKeown, MacAlister, and MacGee, are found there. Kilconway was originally O'Flynn/O'Lynn territory, but was held by the MacQuillans as part of the Route, and later by the gal... | of the city, which was renamed in 2006 in honour of footballer George Best. Rail The main Translink Northern Ireland Railways routes are the major line between Belfast, Antrim, Ballymena, Coleraine and Derry, Belfast to Carrickfergus and Larne, the port for Stranraer in Scotland and Coleraine to Portrush. Sea Two of No... |
of the "marginalist revolution;" the idea that consumers attempt to adjust consumption until marginal utility equals the price was another of his contributions. The price elasticity of demand was presented by Marshall as an extension of these ideas. Economic welfare, divided into producer surplus and consumer surplus, ... | the next decade at work on the treatise. His plan for the work gradually extended to a two-volume compilation on the whole of economic thought. The first volume was published in 1890 to worldwide acclaim, establishing him as one of the leading economists of his time. The second volume, which was to address foreign trad... |
with Seymour in January and February 1853. Nicholas insisted that he no longer wished to expand the Russia Empire but that he had an obligation to the Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire. He next dispatched a highly-abrasive diplomat, Prince Menshikov, on a special mission to the Ottoman Sublime Porte in Februa... | from the sea that made the harbour, Sir John Burgoyne, the engineer advisor, recommended for the allies attack to Sevastopol from the south. The joint commanders, Raglan and St Arnaud, agreed. On 25 September, the whole army began to march southeast and encircled the city from the south after it had established port fa... |
have keratinous sheaths covering permanent bone cores, are deciduous. All these cranial appendages can serve for posturing, battling for mating privilege, and for defense. In almost all cases, they are sexually dimorphic, and often found only on the males. Teeth There are two trends in terms of teeth within Artiodactyl... | the red deer, moose, elk (wapiti), and reindeer (caribou). The bovids (Bovidae) are the most species-rich. Among them are cattle, sheep, caprines, and antelopes. The whippomorphans include hippos and cetaceans: The hippos (Hippopotamidae) comprise two groups, the hippo and the pygmy hippo. The whales (Cetacea) comprise... |
field; and round these two distinguished men was gradually formed the philosophic sect of the Économistes, or, as for distinction's sake they were afterwards called, the Physiocrates. The most remarkable men in this group of disciples were the elder Mirabeau (author of L'Ami des hommes, 1756–60, and Philosophie rurale,... | great inventions which have contributed most to the stability of political societies, the other two being those of writing and of money. Its object was to exhibit by means of certain formulas the way in which the products of agriculture, which is the only source of wealth, would in a state of perfect liberty be distrib... |
that land's productivity would always increase and that rents from that land would be sufficient to support the nation without taxes. He also asserts that all other taxes (i.e. on goods, labor, capital) eventually realize effects exactly identical to a consumption tax, so they can hurt the economy (unlike a land tax). ... | because the value of what an individual consumer consumes is equal to the value of that individual's stock of goods, that the aggregate, the value of total sales must equal the value of total purchase, must hold true. This became known as Walras' Law which held that equilibrium equations can be derived from the others ... |
ground or in the water are redirected as with the keels, center boards, wheels and ice blades of traditional sailing craft. In the last two decades, several kite sailing sports have become popular, such as kite buggying, kite landboarding, kite boating and kite surfing. Snow kiting has also become popular. Kite sailing... | undercarriage and power plant hung beneath. Powered paraglider or paramotor – a paraglider with a power plant suspended behind the pilot. Ground effect vehicle A ground effect vehicle (GEV) is a craft that attains level flight near the surface of the earth, making use of the ground effect – an aerodynamic interaction b... |
A test drilling in 2004 detected evidence of 15 volcanic eruptions in the past 20,000 years. Recent lake level change Similar but smaller fluctuations have been seen recently. The level of the lake rose by at least during the 1990s, drowning much agricultural land, and (after a brief period of stability and then retrea... | Bonn has applied for funding from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) for an akin deeper-drilling project. This expects to find it "stores the climate history of the last 800,000 years—an incomparable treasure house of data which we want to tap for at least the last 500,000 years." A test d... |
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diagonally. A stone can only move from one intersection to an adjacent intersection. Black and white pieces, twenty-two each, are arranged on all points but the center. The objective of the game is to capture all the opponents pieces. The game is a draw if neither player succeeds in this. Players alternate turns, start... | Fanoron-Telo, Fanoron-Dimy, and Fanoron-Tsivy. The difference between these variants is the size of board played on. Fanoron-Telo is played on a 3×3 board and the difficulty of this game can be compared to the game of tic-tac-toe. Fanoron-Dimy is played on a 5×5 board and Fanoron-Tsivy is played on a 9×5 board—Tsivy be... |
Human-powered watercraft include prehistoric, historic and well-known traditional and sporting craft such as canoes, rowing boats and galleys. The term human-powered boat is often used for more modern craft using propellers and water wheels for propulsion. These can be more efficient than paddles or oars and especially... | 24 hours by human power , and the second for the world's fastest time trial (23 hours, 2 minutes). Both records were broken on August 6, 2010 by Christian von Ascheberg who drove in 19 hours, 27 minutes and managed to go in 24 hours with his Milan SL Velomobile. In the same race he also raised the 12-hour record to , w... |
or "Ah". Henry Irving had produced a W. G. Wills adaptation of King René’s Daughter in London in 1880, under the name Iolanthe, and in October 1882 Gilbert asked his producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, to request Irving's permission to use the name. It is not known whether Irving replied. Iolanthe premiered only three days... | his unrequited love for Phyllis ("Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest"). The two peers try to cheer him up and urge him to make another effort to persuade himself to award Phyllis to ... himself ("If you go in you're sure to win"). Strephon now leads both parties in Parliament, but he is miserable at losing Phyllis. H... |
operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing. Early life Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished mathematicians. The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but emigrat... | not until about 170 years later, in 1896 that an Italian doctor discovered a less painful method which is still in use today. However, Bernoulli's method of measuring pressure is still used today in modern aircraft to measure the speed of the air passing the plane; that is its air speed. Taking his discoveries further,... |
him to study the economic condition of the United Kingdom. The results of his observations appeared in a tract, De l'Angleterre et des Anglais. A third edition of the Traité appeared in 1817. A chair of industrial economy was established for him in 1819 at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. In 1825, he became a mem... | to one kind of product and not enough to another" (1803, pp. 178–179). Explaining his point at length, he wrote the following: Say also wrote that it is not the abundance of money, but the abundance of other products in general that facilitates sales: Say's law may also have been culled from Ecclesiastes 5:11 – "When g... |
composed of particles of clay along with oxides of iron and manganese. There is also a host of trace elements and almost always some organic matter. The color of the varnish varies from shades of brown to black. It has been suggested that desert varnish should be investigated as a potential candidate for a "shadow bios... | varnish has already been reproduced with chemistry not involving life in the lab, and that the main component is actually silica and not clay as previously thought. The study notes that desert varnish is an excellent fossilizer for microbes and indicator of water. Desert varnish appears to have been observed by rovers ... |
copper, gold, lead, and silver. These sporadic mining ventures were hampered by their remote location and the harsh desert environment. In December 1903, two men from Ballarat were prospecting for silver. One was an out-of-work Irish miner named Jack Keane and the other was a one-eyed Basque butcher named Domingo Etcha... | a mass of granite now in the Panamint Range intruded this complex. Uplift later exposed these rocks to nearly 500 million years of erosion. The Proterozoic sedimentary formations of the Pahrump Group were deposited on these basement rocks. This occurred following uplift and erosion of any earlier sediments from the Pro... |
calcite to precipitate around the spring orifices. The tufa originally formed at the bottom of the lake. It took many decades or even centuries to form the well-recognized tufa towers. When lake levels fell, the tufa towers came to rise above the water surface and stand as the majestic pillars seen today (see Lake Leve... | increase in δ18O and paleoshorelines. This lake-level record has been correlated with significant climatic events including polar jet stream movement, Heinrich, and Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Climate Paleoclimate reconstruction The reconstruction of historical Mono Lake levels through carbon and oxygen isotopes have al... |
over 600 springs and ponds. Salt Creek, a mile-long shallow depression in the center of the valley, supports Death Valley Pupfish. These isolated pupfish populations are remnants of the wetter Pleistocene climate. Darwin Falls, on the western edge of Death Valley Monument, falls into a large pond surrounded by willows ... | by the valley's north–south orientation, which runs perpendicular to prevailing west-to-east winds. Migration of warm air from other areas (advection): Warm desert regions adjacent to Death Valley, especially to the south and east, often heat air before it arrives in Death Valley. Warm mountain winds: As winds are forc... |
Greenwood, El Dorado County, California Long Valley, Hong Kong Long Valley, New Jersey Long Valley, Arizona Long Valley, | County, California Long Valley, California, former name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California Long Valley, Hong Kong Long Valley, New Jersey Long Valley, Arizona Long Valley, South Dakota Long Valley, |
. It is the case that when is even, and when is odd. For example, the number has the continued fraction representations = [3; 7, 15, 1] = [3; 7, 16] and thus is a convergent of any number strictly between {| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" | align="right" | |||| |- | align="right" | |||| |} Comparison Consider and . If... | The golden ratio, the irrational number that is the "most difficult" to approximate rationally. See: A property of the golden ratio φ. . The Euler–Mascheroni constant, which is expected but not known to be irrational, and whose continued fraction has no apparent pattern. Continued fractions are, in some ways, more "mat... |
Hatchery which contain a small component (2–5%) of thermal water that raises water temperatures about higher than background temperatures. Use of the warm spring water in the hatchery has increased fish production because trout growth rates are faster in the warm water than in ambient stream temperatures in Long Valley... | the base of the resurgent dome hosts a geothermal power plant. Hot Creek cuts into part of the resurgent dome and passes through hot springs. The warm water of Hot Creek supports many trout, and is used at the Hot Creek Fish Hatchery. The creek was closed to swimming in 2006 after geothermal activity in the area increa... |
the atmosphere through which the sun shone weakly. The latest scientific studies of the ash produced by Vesuvius reveal a multi-phase eruption. The initial major explosion produced a column of ash and pumice ranging between high, which rained on Pompeii to the southeast but not on Herculaneum upwind. The chief energy s... | The volcano then entered a stage of more frequent, but less violent eruptions, until the most recent Plinian eruption, which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum. The last of these may have been in 217 BC. There were earthquakes in Italy during that year and the sun was reported as being dimmed by gray haze or dry fog. Pl... |
no armament, or only limited defensive armament. They do not always require high-performance capability or stealth characteristics, and may be modified civilian aircraft. Surveillance aircraft have also included moored balloons (e.g. TARS) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Definitions The terms “surveillance” and “r... | and Soviet Union during most of the 1960s. Roles Maritime patrol Maritime patrol aircraft are typically large, slow machines capable of flying continuously for many hours, with a wide range of sensors. Such aircraft include the Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, the Breguet Atlantique, the Tupolev Tu-95, the Lockheed P-2 Neptune ... |
story for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in 1996. Personal life and final years During his time with the Royal Air Force he met his first wife, Dorothy "Dot" Bird, who was serving in the Women's Royal Air Force. They married in 1950 and had three children (Barry, Susan and David), but were later divorced. ... | as an office boy for a publisher and a cinema projectionist. During his period of National Service in the Royal Air Force, in which he played the trumpet, he began performing and later worked as a stand-up comedian, eventually becoming a West End revue performer, working on For Amusement Only and For Adults Only. In te... |
remained in Russia for the wedding a week later of the new Russian emperor, his maternal first cousin Nicholas II, to one of George's paternal first cousins, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, who had once been considered as a potential bride for George's elder brother. Prince of Wales As Duke of York, George carried... | the civil list to help balance the budget. He was concerned by the rise to power in Germany of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. In 1934, the King bluntly told the German ambassador Leopold von Hoesch that Germany was now the peril of the world, and that there was bound to be a war within ten years if Germany went on at... |
of protactinium (protactinium-234), and they both decayed into uranium II (uranium-234), but with different half lives. Uranium Z was the first example of nuclear isomerism. Walther Gerlach later remarked that this was "a discovery that was not understood at the time but later became highly significant for nuclear phys... | thorium C (thallium-208). The physicist Walther Gerlach described radioactive recoil as "a profoundly significant discovery in physics with far-reaching consequences". In 1910, Hahn was appointed professor by the Prussian Minister of Culture and Education, August von Trott zu Solz. Two years later, Hahn became head of ... |
Windsor, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Canada Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador Windsor, Nova Scotia Windsor, Ontario Windsor, Quebec New Zealand Windsor, New Zealand, a township in North Otago United Kingdom Windsor, Berkshire, a town near London Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire Windsor Great Park Win... | Windsor may refer to: Places Australia Windsor, New South Wales Municipality of Windsor, a former local government area Windsor, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Windsor, Queensland Town of Windsor, a former local government authority around Winds... |
Riley allowed him to practice before school instead. Owens and Minnie Ruth Solomon (1915–2001) met at Fairmont Junior High School in Cleveland when he was 15 and she was 13. They dated steadily through high school. Ruth gave birth to their first daughter, Gloria, in 1932. They married on July 5, 1935, and had two more ... | where he set three world records and tied a fourth. He equaled the world record for the 100-yard dash (9.4 seconds) (not to be confused with the 100-meter dash), and set world records in the long jump (, a world record that would last for 25 years); sprint (20.3 seconds); and 220-yard low hurdles (22.6 seconds, becomin... |
meaning "naked seeds", after the unenclosed condition of their seeds (called ovules in their unfertilised state). Their naked condition stands in contrast to the seeds and ovules of flowering plants (angiosperms), which are enclosed within an ovary. Gymnosperm seeds develop either on the surface of scales or leaves, of... | mammals it is more common for ejaculation to precede ovulation than vice versa. When sperm are deposited into the anterior vagina, they are not capable of fertilisation (i.e., non-capacitated) and are characterized by slow linear motility patterns. This motility, combined with muscular contractions enables sperm transp... |
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