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as unencrypted .mobi for Kindle. Baen CDs In 2002, Baen also started adding CD-ROMs into some hardcovers of newest titles in successful series. They contain the complete series of novels preceding the printed book (for those books that were the latest in a series), other works by the same author, some works by other au... | also sells individual e-books and a subscription-based e-book program. The books in the Free Library are available via the website for Baen Ebooks in various formats including HTML, Rich Text Format, and EPUB as well as unencrypted .mobi for Kindle. Baen CDs In 2002, Baen also started adding CD-ROMs into some hardcover... |
The sources vary as to the nature of the bridge central to the events of the battle. Zosimus mentions it, vaguely, as being constructed in two parts connected by iron fastenings, while others indicate that it was a pontoon bridge; sources are also unclear as to whether the bridge was deliberately constructed as a colla... | or halo. Various emperors portrayed Sol Invictus on their official coinage, with a wide range of legends, only a few of which incorporated the epithet invictus, such as the legend SOLI INVICTO COMITI, claiming the Unconquered Sun as a companion to the emperor, used with particular frequency by Constantine. Constantine'... |
of a thought-experiment. Perhaps the key experiment in the history of modern science is Galileo's demonstration that falling objects must fall at the same rate regardless of their masses. This is widely thought to have been a straightforward physical demonstration, involving climbing up the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dr... | tell us about the nature of that notion in any scenario, real or imagined. For example, a thought experiment might present a situation in which an agent intentionally kills an innocent for the benefit of others. Here, the relevant question is not whether the action is moral or not, but more broadly whether a moral theo... |
Bush. White House officials described the first meeting between Koizumi and Bush at Camp David as "incredibly warm", with the two men playing catch with a baseball. In the North Korean abductions and nuclear development issues, Koizumi took more assertive attitudes than his predecessors. Self-Defense Forces policy Alth... | unpopular. Two visits to North Korea to solve the issue of abducted Japanese nationals only somewhat raised his popularity, as he could not secure several abductees' returns to Japan. In the House of Councilors elections in 2004, the LDP performed only marginally better than the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DP... |
visual appearance. For example, in Wikipedia wikilinks are displayed in blue, except those that link to pages that don't yet exist, which are instead shown in red. Another possibility for linking is to display a highlighted clickable question mark after the wikilinked term. Virtual worlds Hyperlinks are being implement... | an image and takes visitors to another part of a web page. E-mail hyperlink. Hyperlink is embedded into e-mail address and allows visitors to send an e-mail message to this e-mail address. Fat links A fat link (also known as a "one-to-many" link, an "extended link" or a "multi-tailed link") is a hyperlink which leads t... |
Japanese Army, and in 1886 was appointed Vice-Minister of War. During the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) Katsura commanded the IJA 3rd Division under his mentor, Field Marshal Yamagata Aritomo. During the war, his division made a memorable march in the depth of winter from the north-east shore of the Yellow Sea to... | to 1878 and again from 1884 to 1885. On his return to Japan, he was promoted to major general. He served in several key positions within the Imperial Japanese Army, and in 1886 was appointed Vice-Minister of War. During the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) Katsura commanded the IJA 3rd Division under his mentor, Fie... |
British Ornithologists' Union. Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly joined the army in 1915, straight after leaving the school, earned a Military Cross during the First World War, and later returned to the school as Director of Art. Rugbeian Society The Rugbeian Society is for former pupils at the School. An Old Rugbeian is so... | polychromatic school chapel, new quadrangle, Temple Reading Room, Macready Theatre and Gymnasium were designed by well-known Victorian Gothic revival architect William Butterfield in 1875, and the smaller Memorial Chapel was dedicated in 1922. The Temple Speech Room, named after former headmaster and Archbishop of Cant... |
Enonkoski. History The city was founded in 1639, based on Olavinlinna castle (St. Olaf's Castle). The castle was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 in an effort to protect Savonia and to control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary. During the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743), the... | the second tier Mestis. The top-tier volleyball team Saimaa Volley plays some of its home matches in Savonlinna. The football team Savonlinnan Työväen Palloseura (STPS), is playing in Kolmonen, the fourth tier. International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Savonlinna is twinned with: Detmold, Germany Kalmar, Swede... |
kilometers. These areas are exposed to the surface through the process of erosion accelerated by continental uplift acting over many tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years. This process has removed several tens of square kilometers of overlying rock in many areas, exposing the once deeply buried batholiths. ... | Batholith, Ghana Heerenveen Batholith, South Africa Paarl Rock, South Africa Darling Batholith, South Africa Hook granite massif, Zambia Mubende Batholith, Uganda Antarctica Antarctic Peninsula Batholith Queen Maud Batholith Asia Angara-Vitim batholith, Siberia Bhongir Fort Batholith, Telangana, India Chibagalakh batho... |
to that developed by the Romans. The gatehouse contained a series of defences to make a direct assault more difficult than battering down a simple gate. Typically, there were one or more portcullises – a wooden grille reinforced with metal to block a passage – and arrowslits to allow defenders to harry the enemy. The p... | depiction of Château de Dinan. Sometimes a motte covered an older castle or hall, whose rooms became underground storage areas and prisons beneath a new keep. Bailey and enceinte A bailey, also called a ward, was a fortified enclosure. It was a common feature of castles, and most had at least one. The keep on top of th... |
Korean spelled it (; "Amnok River") and Revised Romanization of Hangeul spelled it (; "Aprok River"). Geography From 2500 m above sea level on Paektu Mountain on the China–North Korea border, the river flows south to Hyesan before sweeping 130 km northwest to Linjiang and then returning to a more southerly route for a ... | the Togro () rivers from Korea and the Ai (or Aihe) () and the Hun () from China. The river is not easily navigable for most of its length. Most of the river freezes during winter and can be crossed on foot. The depth of the Yalu River varies from some of the more shallow parts on the eastern side in Hyesan () to the d... |
Images of Ceaușescu's facial expression as the crowd began to boo and heckle him were among the most widely broadcast of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Failing to control the crowd, the Ceaușescus finally took cover inside the building that housed the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. The... | created, child abandonment, which swelled the orphanage population (see Cighid). Many of the children in these orphanages were rejected due to mental and physical deficiencies. Measures to encourage reproduction included financial motivations for families who bore children, guaranteed maternity leave, and childcare sup... |
2015. Power and responsibilities Although the position is in some ways analogous to the speaker of the House of Representatives, the powers of the president pro tempore are far more limited. In the Senate, most power rests with the majority leader and other individual senators, but as the chamber's presiding officer, t... | the ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967, a vacancy in the vice presidency could be filled only by a regular election; several individuals who served during these vacancies were referred to informally as "acting vice president." On three occasions during the 19th century, the Senate was without both a pre... |
Montgomery County (disambiguation) Montgomery Street (disambiguation) Montgomery Township (disambiguation) Montgomeryville (disambiguation) Other countries Montgomery Rocks, Tasmania, Australia Electoral division of Montgomery, Tasmania, Australia Montgomery, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Organiz... | Montgomery Tahsil, an administrative subdivision of Montgomery District in Punjab province of British India United Kingdom Wales Montgomery, Powys Montgomery Canal Montgomery Castle Montgomeryshire (disambiguation) United States Montgomery, Alabama, state capital Montgomery, California Montgomery, Georgia Montgomery, I... |
is increased to 95%, the probability rises to 49%. Cancer rate Even if 100% of patients with pancreatic cancer have a certain symptom, when someone has the same symptom, it does not mean that this person has a 100% chance of getting pancreatic cancer. Assuming the incidence rate of pancreatic cancer is 1/100000, while ... | where is the probability of both A and B being true. Similarly, Solving for and substituting into the above expression for yields Bayes' theorem: For continuous random variables For two continuous random variables X and Y, Bayes' theorem may be analogously derived from the definition of conditional density: Therefore, ... |
new data point, marginalized over the prior: Bayesian theory calls for the use of the posterior predictive distribution to do predictive inference, i.e., to predict the distribution of a new, unobserved data point. That is, instead of a fixed point as a prediction, a distribution over possible points is returned. Only ... | out of bowl #1? Intuitively, it seems clear that the answer should be more than a half, since there are more plain cookies in bowl #1. The precise answer is given by Bayes' theorem. Let correspond to bowl #1, and to bowl #2. It is given that the bowls are identical from Fred's point of view, thus , and the two must add... |
the Greens, were involved in the Nika riots which lasted around a week in 532 CE; nearly half the city was burned or destroyed, in addition to tens of thousands of deaths. Sports crowd violence continues to be a worldwide concerning phenomenon exacting at times a large number of injuries, damage to property and casualt... | been warned that it would be as much as their life was worth to give evidence against John Darcy. On Wednesday plain-clothes men escorted the witnesses from the court singly. He himself had been warned – not by anonymous letter but through a mysterious personal medium – that if seen in a certain neighbourhood he would ... |
Davis and Rubin told the judge, "This court is bullshit." When Hoffman was asked in what state he resided, he replied the "state of mind of my brothers and sisters." Other celebrities were called as "cultural witnesses" including Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Mailer and others. Hoffman closed the tria... | by the name Ilya; she took her own life. Hoffman and Karklin divorced in 1966. In 1967, he married Anita Kushner in Manhattan's Central Park. They had one son whom they named Hoffman, deliberately using a lowercase "a". He and Kushner were effectively separated when Hoffman became a fugitive in 1973, although they were... |
fought, each side toured the country to raise support for their army. A series of massacres of Jews in Worcester, London, Canterbury and other cities were conducted by Montfort's allies. By May the King's force had reached Lewes where they intended to halt for a while to allow reinforcements to reach them. The King enc... | divisions straight up Offham Hill into the baronial line which awaited them at the defensive. Cornwall's division faltered almost immediately but Henry's men fought on until compelled to retreat by the arrival of de Montfort's men that had been held as the baronial reserve. The King's men were forced down the hill and ... |
they host. Their breadth of coverage (insofar as link information is concerned) is narrow. A wiki, however, is very live (and indeed, liveness, is its raison d'etre). Google supports link awareness through its web interface. (You type in a query of the form link:<URL>.) Google's breadth is impressive (it covers a lot o... | support link awareness within the scope of the documents that they host. Their breadth of coverage (insofar as link information is concerned) is narrow. A wiki, however, is very live (and indeed, liveness, is its raison d'etre). Google supports link awareness through its web interface. (You type in a query of the form ... |
said of international disarmament: If all our efforts for an agreement fail, and if it is not possible to obtain this equality in such matters as I have indicated, then any Government of this country—a National Government more than any, and this Government—will see to it that in air strength and air power this country ... | served jointly with Sir Hardman Lever, who had been appointed in 1916, but after 1919 Baldwin carried out the duties largely alone. He was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1920 Birthday Honours. In 1921 he was promoted to the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade. Chancellor of the Exchequer In late 1922 diss... |
one might expect of inexperienced commanders and raw militia, but not of Lee's 'War Horse' and his veteran troops". Hood opposed an attack on the Union left, arguing that the Union position was too strong, and proposed that his troops be moved to the right near Big Round Top and hit the Union in the rear. Longstreet in... | the rest of his life. Longstreet's father decided on a military career for his son but felt that the local education available to him would not be adequate preparation. At the age of nine, James was sent to live with his aunt Frances Eliza and uncle Augustus Baldwin Longstreet in Augusta, Georgia. James spent eight yea... |
Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918. San Francisco's Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was introduced as a piece of evidence with a message reading, "S.F. Judge who rules for L.A. No... | World War II, which forcibly put over 100,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps, including those who had produced fortune cookies. This gave an opportunity for Chinese manufacturers. Fortune cookies before the early 20th century were all made by hand. The fortune cookie industry changed dramatically after the fort... |
the vaginal canal, but not a single case of a candiru entering the anus was ever documented. According to Gudger, this lends credence to the unlikelihood of the fish entering the male urethra, based on the comparatively small opening that would accommodate only the most immature members of the species. Modern cases To ... | physician, named Dr. Bach, who had examined a man and several boys whose penises had been amputated. Bach believed this was a remedy performed because of parasitism by candiru, but he was merely speculating as he did not speak his patients' language. American biologist Eugene Willis Gudger noted that the area which the... |
fully armed with captured Union weapons. As a result, Grant was forced to revise and delay the strategy of his Vicksburg campaign. Newspaper correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader, who traveled with Grant for three years during his campaigns, wrote that Forrest "was the only Confederate cavalryman of whom Grant stood in mu... | Forrest had reached the fort at 10:00 am after a hard ride from Mississippi, and his horse was soon shot out from under him, causing him to fall to the ground. He then mounted a second horse, which was shot out from under him as well, forcing him to mount a third horse. By 3:30 pm, Forrest had concluded that the Union ... |
practice of harvesting Indian yellow was eventually declared to be inhumane. Modern hues of Indian yellow are made from synthetic pigments. Vermillion has been partially replaced in by cadmium reds. Because of the cost of lapis lazuli, substitutes were often used. Prussian blue, the oldest modern synthetic pigment, was... | pigment industry globally is $30 billion. The value of titanium dioxide – used to enhance the white brightness of many products – was placed at $13.2 billion per year, while the color Ferrari red is valued at $300 million each year. Physical principles Like all materials, the color of pigments arises because they absor... |
a 45-million-year-old specimen of Baltic amber (Raptophasma kerneggeri). Live specimens were found in Namibia by an international expedition in early 2002; Tyrannophasma gladiator was found on the Brandberg Massif, and Mantophasma zephyra was found on the Erongoberg Massif. Since then, a number of new genera and specie... | & Adis, 2002 – Namibia Species Praedatophasma maraisi Zompro & Adis, 2002 Genus Tyrannophasma Zompro, 2003 – Namibia Species Tyrannophasma gladiator Zompro, 2003 Tribe Mantophasmatini Zompro, Klass, Kristensen, Adis, 2002 (paraphyletic?) Genus Mantophasma Zompro, Klass, Kristensen, Adis, 2002 – Namibia Species Mantopha... |
included creatures such as rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, elephants, giraffes, aurochs, wisents, Barbary lions, panthers, leopards, bears, Caspian tigers, crocodiles and ostriches. Battles and hunts were often staged amid elaborate sets with movable trees and buildings. Such events were occasionally on a huge scale; Traja... | for contests well into the 6th century. Animal hunts continued until at least 523, when Anicius Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodoric the Great for their high cost. Medieval The Colosseum underwent several radical changes of use. By the late 6th century a small chapel had ... |
of life, increase in social isolation and decline in social engagement, which are all risk factors for increased risk of developing depression symptoms. Spoken language ability Post-lingual deafness is hearing loss that is sustained after the acquisition of language, which can occur due to disease, trauma, or as a side... | affects both ears and is due to cochlear hair cell loss. In some people, particularly older people, hearing loss can result in loneliness. Deaf people usually have little to no hearing. Hearing loss may be caused by a number of factors, including: genetics, ageing, exposure to noise, some infections, birth complication... |
communicators to overcome unintelligibility, as are pidgins and creole languages. For example, the Chinook Jargon was a pidgin. Although technical jargon's primary purpose is to aid technical communication, not to exclude outsiders by serving as an argot, it can have both effects at once and can provide a technical ing... | in a field to communicate with precision and brevity, but often has the effect of excluding those who are unfamiliar with the particular specialized language of the group. This can cause difficulties as, for example, when a patient is unable to follow the discussions of medical practitioners, and thus cannot understand... |
Ecology Park The Plaiaundi Ecology Park is a 24 -hectare coastal wetland lying where the Bidasoa River meets the sea in the Bay of Biscay.The nature of Plaiaundi consists of a wide variety of flora (visitors view them mainly in the spring) and fauna (visitors with binoculars arrive all during the year, because of the b... | the shores of the Bay of Biscay are Bordeaux, Bayonne, Biarritz, Brest, Nantes, La Rochelle, Donostia-San Sebastián, Bilbao, Santander, Gijón and Avilés. History The southern end of the gulf is also called in Spanish "Mar Cantábrico" (Cantabrian Sea), from the Estaca de Bares, as far as the mouth of Adour river, but th... |
me. Adverbial modifiers generally follow objects, although other positions are possible (see under below). Certain verb–modifier combinations, particularly when they have independent meaning (such as take on and get up), are known as "phrasal verbs". For details of possible patterns, see English clause syntax. See the ... | I'm for I am, you'd for you would or you had, and John's for John is. Their negated forms with following not are also often contracted (see below). For detail see English auxiliaries and contractions. Phrases A verb together with its dependents, excluding its subject, may be identified as a verb phrase (although this c... |
a wide range of gynecologic procedures such as hysterectomy (with and without ovariectomy), endometrial ablation and uterine artery embolisation. The depletion of the ovarian reserve causes an increase in circulating follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) levels because there are fewer oocytes ... | this point a woman is considered infertile; however, the possibility of becoming pregnant has usually been very low (but not quite zero) for a number of years before this point is reached. A woman's reproductive hormone levels continue to drop and fluctuate for some time into post-menopause, so hormone withdrawal effec... |
Three Impostors, a work bestowing doubt on all organized religion. In 1651, the kabbalist Menasseh ben Israel offered to become her agent or librarian for Hebrew books and manuscripts; they discussed his messianic ideas as he had recently spelled them out in his latest book, Hope of Israel. Other illustrious scholars w... | occupied with her studies, she slept three to four hours a night, forgot to comb her hair, donned her clothes in a hurry and wore men's shoes for the sake of convenience. Her unruly hair became her trademark. Her closest female friend was Ebba Sparre, with whom she shared a bed and possibly a sexual relationship. Chris... |
multiplayer support, which enables four players to participate in the action using a single cartridge. Kuru Kuru Kururin was released in Japan and Europe, but not (until early 2016) in North America. However, as the Game Boy Advance has no regional lockout, a North American Game Boy Advance can be used to play either t... | up and play". The reviewer praised the game's multiplayer mode, which he described as "an absolute blast", as well as its lasting appeal, but also commented that the "cutesy" characters and music would be a turn-off for "a lot of people". Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot rated Kuru Kuru Kururin 7.1 out of 10 and described it... |
of fantasy literature in contemporary society. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as of October 2012. Awards For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Cooper was U.S. nominee in 2002 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creator... | children's books. The American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award recognises one writer and a particular body of work for "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". Cooper won the award in 2012 citing the five Dark Is Rising novels, published 1965 to 1977. The citation observed, "In ... |
that she had no social life at all. She divorced Tony Lackey, and eventually married Larry Dixon. Stance on fanfiction Despite getting her own start as a fan fiction author, she and her agent forbade fanfiction based on her own books for many years, whether distributed offline or online. Lackey stated on her website th... | she enjoyed and then use that knowledge. Lackey then encountered fan fiction, which further encouraged her writing. She began publishing work in science fiction fanzines and then discovered filk and had some filk lyrics published by Off Centaur Publications. Professional sales Lackey submitted a story to Sword and Sorc... |
seize the local beat from which The New York Times was retreating as it sought to become a national newspaper". Stoll characterized The Sun's political orientation as "right-of-center", and an associate of Conrad Black predicted in 2002 that the paper would be neoconservative in its outlook. Unsigned editorials in the ... | unapologetically displays the scalps of its victims." In the same article, Mark Malloch Brown, Kofi Annan's chief of staff at the United Nations, described The Sun as "a pimple on the backside of American journalism." According to Sherman, Brown "accepts that the paper's obsession with the UN translates into influence ... |
in a state of suspended animation (hence the title) and can only interact by controlling the actions of a number of robot surrogates. Each robot has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and describes the same rooms and objects in completely different terms based upon those specializations. The robots are: Iris - Th... | not mention the directions of possible exits, which makes the map vital to playing. Briefing for the Contra Central Mentality, a booklet that provides an overview of the facility, the robots, the computer system, and the player character's responsibilities A letter from the Contra Central Lottery Commission Headquarter... |
can also contain a ISO 9660 file system making references to files on the UDF part. Revisions Multiple revisions of UDF have been released: Revision 1.00 (24 October 1995). Original Release. Revision 1.01 (3 November 1995). Added DVD Appendix and made a few minor changes. Revision 1.02 (30 August 1996). This format is ... | a disc can also contain a ISO 9660 file system making references to files on the UDF part. Revisions Multiple revisions of UDF have been released: Revision 1.00 (24 October 1995). Original Release. Revision 1.01 (3 November 1995). Added DVD Appendix and made a few minor changes. Revision 1.02 (30 August 1996). This for... |
the same "byte sex" as HC11 computers, for example. Functions are sometimes needed for computers of different endianness to communicate with each other over the internet, as protocols often use big endian byte coding by default. On the RCA 1802 series of microprocessors, the SEX, for "SEt X," instruction is used to des... | SEX assembly language mnemonic has often been used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the Motorola 6809. A computer's or CPU's "sex" can also mean the endianness of the computer architecture used. x86 computers do not have the same "byte sex" as HC11 computers, for example. Functions are sometimes neede... |
the original structure. In the 18th and 19th centuries especially, many castles underwent "improvements" by architects such as Anthony Salvin, and in this period a fashion developed for entirely new houses to be built in the style of castles, and to be known as castles. Amongst these was Peckforton Castle, built by Sal... | Once fortifications had become altogether redundant, it became increasingly rare in England for new buildings to be described as castles, in contrast to France, where country houses continued to be known as châteaux. Once no longer needed as fortresses, castles — if they were not abandoned — were, over the centuries, a... |
Council as the premiership alternated between Saionji Kinmochi and Katsura Tarō. Toward the end of August 1901, Itō announced his intention of visiting the United States to recuperate. This turned into a long journey in the course of which he visited the major cities of the United States and Europe. He set off from Yok... | first time, later a lifelong friend. Political career Rise to power After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Itō was appointed governor of Hyōgo Prefecture, junior councilor for Foreign Affairs, and sent to the United States in 1870 to study Western currency systems. Returning to Japan in 1871, he established Japan's taxat... |
puñales" ("Two daggers"), "Madrid" and especially the famous theme "María Bonita", composed in Acapulco during their honeymoon. "María Bonita" would become one of Lara's most popular Lara songs. However, the relationship ended in 1947 due to Lara's jealousy. Félix said that Lara even tried to kill her in a fit of viole... | his early years because she sent him to schools abroad "to discipline" him. Years later, Enrique returned to Mexico and started a career as an actor in film and television. Regarding her son, Félix said: "Enrique is a very gifted man, with admirable common sense. He's my best friend. I have so much fun with him. He's n... |
thirties at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble, Krienbühl mostly skated at the back of the field. However, in 1974, he introduced the one-piece skin suit into speed skating. In spite of the fact that he improved his times dramatically, he was initially laughed at. However, when other skaters also showed improvement, ... | 48 the next season, though he continued to skate competitively until 1986. During his career, he won at least 14 Swiss Allround Championships. In 1989, Krienbühl was severely injured in a cycling accident. He died in April 2002, aged 73. References Franz Krienbühl at SkateResults.com External links 1929 births 2002 dea... |
the health of Aino who was driven to retire to a sanatorium, suffering from exhaustion. While she was away, Sibelius resolved to give up drinking, concentrating instead on composing his Third Symphony. He completed the work for a performance in Helsinki on 25 September. Although its more classical approach surprised th... | of Vaasa, and Elisabeth Clodt von Jürgensburg, a Baltic aristocrat. The wedding was held on 10 June 1892 at Maxmo. They spent their honeymoon in Karelia, the home of the Kalevala. It served as an inspiration for Sibelius's tone poem En saga, the Lemminkäinen legends and the Karelia Suite. Their home, Ainola, was comple... |
influential members of the upper classes, supported by the right-wing press" probably instigated the prosecution; at the time, most people in Stockholm thought that Queen Sophia was behind it. By the end of that year Strindberg was in a despondent mood: "My view now is," he wrote, "everything is shit. No way out. The s... | his final term in the spring, he left on 2 March 1872, without graduating. In Town and Gown (1877), a collection of short stories describing student life, he ridiculed Uppsala and its professors. Strindberg embarked on his career as a journalist and critic for newspapers in Stockholm. He was particularly excited at thi... |
perhaps required—a tolerance of the beliefs of others. This liberal attitude would naturally have made its way into the Athenian assembly as sophists began acquiring increasingly high-powered clients. Continuous rhetorical training gave the citizens of Athens "the ability to create accounts of communal possibilities th... | actually accept payment from Philip, Alexander's father, but requested that Philip reconstruct Aristotle's home town of Stageira as payment, which Philip had destroyed in a previous campaign, terms which Philip accepted. James A. Herrick wrote: "In De Oratore, Cicero blames Plato for separating wisdom and eloquence in ... |
Sacred Hearts Band. Other film and television work Concurrent with his work in Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd played the role of Purvis Bickle, lift operator at the fictitious office block 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television series Coming Up Rosie. After leaving SNL, Aykroyd starred in a number of films, mostly comedi... | that featured many blues artists. He describes these influences as follows: Aykroyd's first professional experience, which he gained at the age of 17, was as a member of the cast of the short-lived Canadian sketch comedy series The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour with Lorne Michaels, among others. He was a member of the S... |
to Japan, Lloyd Griscom, to tell Roosevelt that Japan was ready to negotiate. However, a positive response did not come from Russia until after the loss of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. Two days later, Nicholas met with his grand dukes and military leadership and agreed to discuss peace. On June 7, 1905,... | international law and arbitration specialist Friedrich Martens. The delegations arrived in Portsmouth on August 8 and stayed in New Castle, New Hampshire, at the Hotel Wentworth, where the armistice was signed. They were ferried across the Piscataqua River every day to the naval base in Kittery, Maine, where the negoti... |
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aurora Australis or the southern lights, has features almost identical to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone. The aurora Australis is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. The aurora borealis ... | driving voltage, which an, as yet unspecified, dynamo mechanism can supply. Electric field probes in orbit above the polar cap suggest voltages of the order of 40,000 volts, rising up to more than 200,000 volts during intense magnetic storms. In another interpretation, the currents are the direct result of electron acc... |
Canada Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, once called Newark Germany Neuwerk (traditional English name Newark), an island and quarter of Hamburg in the German Bight Great Tower Neuwerk, tower on the German island Neuwerk, synonymously called Newark in older English texts United Kingdom Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Engl... | called Newark in older English texts United Kingdom Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England Newark, Orkney, a hamlet on Sanday, Scotland Newark, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, a hamlet Newark wapentake, a former administrative diversion Newark Castle, Fife Newark Castle, Selkirkshire Newark Park, a country house and... |
town in Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon District, a local government district Stratford-on-Avon (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918, 1950–present) Other counties Stratford Park, an area of Stroud, Gloucestershire Old Stratford, a village in Northamptonshire Stratford-sub-Castle, a suburb of Salisbury, Wiltshire New ... | Docklands Light Railway station Stratford International station, a main line railway and Docklands Light Railway station Stratford High Street DLR station, a Docklands Light Railway station Stratford West Ham (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950), East London Stratford-atte-Bow or Stratford, historical name of Bow i... |
New York Groton (village), New York, within the town Groton, South Dakota Groton, Vermont, a town Groton (CDP), Vermont, within the town Boarding schools in the United States Groton School Lawrence Academy at Groton Other Groton Bridge Company, a former American firm Groton High School (disambiguation) | Groton (CDP), Vermont, within the town Boarding schools in the United States Groton School Lawrence Academy at Groton Other Groton Bridge Company, a |
again become the sole tyre supplier in all three tiers in 2021. Pirelli is also a sponsor of rally and gymkhana driver Ken Block's Hoonigan Racing Division since 2010. America's Cup Pirelli is sponsor of Emirates Team New Zealand in the 35th America's Cup (2017). Winter Sports Pirelli sponsors Alpine World Ski Champion... | to safeguard and celebrate the company's past and to promote business culture as an integral part of Italy's national cultural assets. In March 2015, it was announced that Pirelli shareholders had accepted a €7.1 billion bid from ChemChina, together with Camfin and LTI, for the company. The transaction was completed an... |
plea in a criminal court case (also known as no contest) No contest (combat sports), a decision at | sports), a decision at a sporting event (especially boxing) No |
Livermore National Laboratory, US HFS Plus, a file system codenamed Sequoia Arts and entertainment Old Sequoia, a 1945 American animated short film directed by Jack King Sequoia (1934 film), an American drama film Sequoia (2014 film), an American film Sequoia (comics), a Marvel Comics character Sequoia (composition), b... | bordering Arkansas Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Tennessee Sequoyah, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in northeastern Oklahoma Elsewhere Tour Sequoia, an office skyscraper in Paris, France Schools Sequoia Middle School (disambiguation), several schools Sequoia High School (disambiguation), several schools Sequoyah High ... |
groves, California Muir Woods National Monument, California Redwood National and State Parks, in Northern California Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California Places Australia Redwood, Queensland Canada Redwood Meadows, A... | Park, California Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California Places Australia Redwood, Queensland Canada Redwood Meadows, Alberta Ireland Redwood, County Tipperary Redwood Castle New Zealand Redwood, Christchurch Redwood, Wellington Redwood Railway Station United States ... |
about the Aurora. On 23 March 1992, near Amarillo, Texas, Steven Douglass photographed the "donuts on a rope" contrail and linked this sighting to distinctive sounds. He described the engine noise as: "strange, loud pulsating roar... unique... a deep pulsating rumble that vibrated the house and made the windows shake..... | registered. In the article, "In Plane Sight?" which appeared in the Washington City Paper on 3 July 1992 (pp. 12–13), one of the seismologists, Jim Mori, noted: "We can't tell anything about the vehicle. They seem stronger than other sonic booms that we record once in a while. They've all come on Thursday mornings abou... |
points, dubbed "Freedom Ridge" and "White Sides", but they were closed to public access in 1995 to prevent people from taking pictures of the installation. History Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864, and the English Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception M... | B. Osborne and partners and patented in 1876, and Osborne's son acquired the interests in the 1890s. The claims were proved in 1916 when two companies began working their mines; that work continued until 1918, and resuming after World War II until the early 1950s. In popular culture Groom Lake is a location in the zomb... |
declarations of innocence that they had made before their deaths. Goddard was a very unwise choice, as he was an ex-Lancastrian who had expounded Henry VI's claim to the throne. Edward summoned Clarence to Windsor, severely upbraided him, accused him of treason, and ordered his immediate arrest and confinement. Clarenc... | Warwick estate as his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, had married () Anne Neville, who had been widowed in 1471. Edward intervened and eventually divided the estates between his brothers. Clarence was created, by right of his wife, first Earl of Warwick on 25 March 1472, and first Earl of Salisbury in a n... |
daughter Isabel, and Edward's brother George, Duke of Clarence. It became increasingly clear that Warwick's position of dominance at court had been taken over by Rivers. In the autumn of 1467, there were rumours that Warwick was now sympathetic to the Lancastrian cause, but even though he refused to come to court to an... | only of vital strategic importance, it also held what was England's largest standing army. There were some initial disputes, with the garrison and with the royal wool monopoly known as the staple, over payments in arrears, but in July Warwick finally took up his post. After the recent events, Queen Margaret still consi... |
the following vowel is unstressed or word-initial, a phenomenon known as flapping. In accents with both flapping and Canadian raising, or before a flapped may still be raised, even though the flap is a voiced consonant. Hence, while in accents without raising, writer and rider are pronounced identically except for a sl... | intervocalic and are pronounced as an alveolar flap when the following vowel is unstressed or word-initial, a phenomenon known as flapping. In accents with both flapping and Canadian raising, or before a flapped may still be raised, even though the flap is a voiced consonant. Hence, while in accents without raising, wr... |
definition differs from that of "axioms" in generative grammar and formal logic. In those disciplines, axioms include only statements asserted as a priori knowledge. As used here, "axioms" also include the theory derived from axiomatic statements Events The changing of attributes or relations Ontologies are commonly en... | such as those related to the definitions of business terms and software classes. Known challenges with ontology engineering include: Ensuring the ontology is current with domain knowledge and term use Providing sufficient specificity and concept coverage for the domain of interest, thus minimizing the content completen... |
TV series Baretta Bobby Blake (born 1958), African American pornographic actor Other Robert Blake (cabinetmaker) (fl. 1826–1839), London cabinetmaker Robert Blake (dentist) (1772–1822), Irish dentist Robert Blake (folk singer) (fl. 21st century), American folk singer Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1916–2003), English histo... | Blake (USMC) (1894–1983), United States Marine Corps general Actors Robert Blake (actor) (born 1933), American actor, starred in the TV series Baretta Bobby Blake (born 1958), African American pornographic actor Other Robert Blake (cabinetmaker) (fl. 1826–1839), London cabinetmaker Robert Blake (dentist) (1772–1822), I... |
symbols denoting a number. It may refer to: Numeral system used in mathematics Numeral (linguistics), a part of speech denoting numbers (e.g. | symbols denoting a number. It may refer to: Numeral system used in mathematics Numeral (linguistics), a part of speech denoting numbers (e.g. one and first |
engine) Auster J/1A Autocrat – four-seat version of Autocrat Auster J/1B Aiglet – re-engined agricultural version of Autocrat ([De Havilland Gipsy Major1] engine) Auster J/1N – Conversion of Auster J/1 Autocrat from Cirrus MinorII engine to Gipsy Major1 engine. Auster J/1N Alpha – NEW built Auster J/1N aircraft (De Hav... | 1,604 high-wing Taylorcraft Auster monoplanes were built during World War II for the armed forces of the UK and Canada, primarily for the role of Air Observation Post (AOP). During the war the head office and drawing office were at a big old house on the outskirts of Thurmaston called "The Woodlands". The fuselages and... |
a minor planet orbiting the Sun Transportation Ships Hansa, a schooner, the research ship of the Second German North Polar Expedition , a container ship, the recovery of whose lost cargo of uniquely numbered Nike shoes provided research into North Pacific Ocean currents , a German auxiliary cruiser used in World War II... | Hansa (car), a German car brand of the Borgward group HFB 320 Hansa Jet, a German business jet Hansa Bai, 15th century Queen of Mewar Organizations Hansa Brewery, a Norwegian brewery merged to form Hansa Borg Bryggerier Hansa Records, a record label based in Germany Hansa Tonstudio, a recording studio in Berlin, German... |
related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers,clay etc. One of the oldest handicraft is Dhokra; this is a sort of metal casting that has been used in India for over 4,000 years and is still used. In Iranian Baluchistan, women still m... | an audience may perceive handcrafted objects as art objects when these objects are viewed within an art context, such as in a museum or in a position of prominence in one's home. In modern education Simple "arts and crafts" projects are a common elementary and middle school activity in both mainstream and alternative e... |
aerodrome (later Southend Municipal Airport) near Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. ATL initially specialised in converting numerous war-surplus bombers and transporters into freighters. This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early po... | near Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. ATL initially specialised in converting numerous war-surplus bombers and transporters into freighters. This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early post-war independent British airline. Bond Air ... |
direction it refers to its maximum directivity in any direction, namely Gain The power gain or simply gain of an antenna in a given direction takes efficiency into account by being defined as the ratio of its radiation intensity in that direction to the mean radiation intensity of a perfectly efficient antenna. Since t... | maximum directive gain when taken over all directions, and is always at least 1. On the other hand, the power gain takes into account the poorer efficiency by comparing the radiated power in a given direction to the actual power that the antenna receives from the transmitter, which makes it a more useful figure of meri... |
of ellipsoids – appeared in the second volume. In 1830, he gave a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for exponent n = 5, which was also proven by Lejeune Dirichlet in 1828. In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss; in connection to this, the Legendre symbol is named after... | and from 1799 to 1815 he served as permanent mathematics examiner for the École Polytechnique. In 1824, Legendre's pension from the École Militaire was stopped because he refused to vote for the government candidate at the Institut National. His pension was partially reinstated with the change in government in 1828. In... |
emphasise the different moods and locations in the film. It also featured additional special effects, replaced intertitles of character dialogue with subtitles and incorporated a soundtrack featuring songs Moroder composed, produced and recorded with popular artists such as Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Pat Benatar, A... | Maria uses the story of the Tower of Babel to highlight the discord between the intellectuals and the workers. Additionally, a delusional Freder imagines the false-Maria as the Whore of Babylon, riding on the back of a many-headed dragon. The name of the Yoshiwara club alludes to the famous red-light district of Tokyo.... |
a tribe based around modern Hertfordshire. Much of Sussex was a Roman canton of the Regni, probably taking a similar area to the pre-Roman tribal area and kingdom. Its capital was at Noviomagus Reginorum, modern-day Chichester, close to the pre-Roman capital of the area, around Selsey. Sussex was home to the magnificen... | of 160,000) living on the breadline and receiving regular relief. Socially acceptable crimes including protest, riot, collective action and smuggling were commonplace in Sussex and were seen by many as a legitimate way to address grievances and assert freedoms. Sussex became a centre for radicalism. Thomas Paine develo... |
and drove the remainder into the Forest of Andred. The Chronicle goes on to describe Ælle's battle with the British in 485 near the bank of Mercredesburne, and his siege of the Saxon Shore fort at Andredadsceaster at modern Pevensey in 491 after which the inhabitants were massacred. According to legend, various places ... | been located at what is now known as the Owers Rocks, south of Selsey, however there is no archaeological evidence to support the existence of Ælle and his three sons in the Selsey area. Most historians regard the foundation of Sussex with Ælle landing with three ships and three sons as a myth. Early period ( – 600) Ar... |
the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, and was a notable actor and alumnus of their Curtain Pullers children's theater program. Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in ... | France, and Israel. In 1983, Newman became a Major Donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, matching a grant from Laurence Rockefeller. Newman was inspired to invest by his connection with Lee Strasberg, as Lee's then daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the Founder and Producing Artistic Di... |
Douglas, American actress (b. 1932) Omar Karami, 29th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934) Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950) Mario Cuomo, American politician (b. 1932) January 2 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1920) January 3 – Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919) Janu... | Dominica (b. 1934) June 2 – Irwin Rose, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1926) June 4 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (b. 1918) June 5 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936) June 6 Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929) Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (b. 1934) June 7 – Christopher Lee, English actor... |
BC: Nomadic invasions of Akkad. c. 2200 BC: Austronesians reached the Batanes Islands of the Philippine Archipelago as part of the Austronesian Expansion. c. 2184 BC: Possible date for the death of pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare, the longest reigning monarch of history with 94 years on the throne. c. 2184 BC: ephemeral rule... | Possible date for the death of pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare, the longest reigning monarch of history with 94 years on the throne. c. 2184 BC: ephemeral rule of Merenre Nemtyemsaf II in Egypt. c. 2184–2181 BC: Reign of Netjerkare Siptah, last pharaoh of the 6th Dynasty of Egypt, who would later give rise to the legendary f... |
It is one type of read-only memory (ROM). PROMs are used in digital electronic devices to store permanent data, usually low level programs such as firmware or microcode. The key difference from a standard ROM is that the data is written into a ROM during manufacture, while with a PROM the data is programmed into them a... | a MOS gate oxide breakdown antifuse in 1979. A dual-gate-oxide two-transistor (2T) MOS antifuse was introduced in 1982. Early oxide breakdown technologies exhibited a variety of scaling, programming, size and manufacturing problems that prevented volume production of memory devices based on these technologies. Another ... |
in the radial direction and it can be shown (using Gauss's law) that they must obey the following form: W can be evaluated by integrating the electric field from to which must be the negative of the voltage V: so that: The magnetic field, again by symmetry, can only be non-zero in the θ direction, that is, a vector fie... | a surface, thus the average Poynting vector component in the direction normal to that surface, is technically known as the irradiance, more often simply referred to as the intensity (a somewhat ambiguous term). Formulation in terms of microscopic fields The "microscopic" (differential) version of Maxwell's equations ad... |
the Plaza del Vapor and the Tacón Theatre. in 1925 French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier redesigned the Paseo del Prado, lined it with trees, bronze sculptures of lions, coral stone walls and marble benches. The bronze lions were added in 1928. The Lions were commissioned by President Gerardo Machado... | in Havana, Cuba. Built in 1840 by the Dominican architect and engineer Manuel José Carrera, its main facade of columns spans one block on Calle Amistad between Calles Reina and Estrella. The Aldama Palace was assaulted by Spanish volunteers on the night of the January 24, 1869. Its owner at that time, Don Miguel de Ald... |
January 1665 was named Curator by Office for life with an additional salary of £30 to Cutler's annuity. Hooke's role at the Royal Society was to demonstrate experiments from his own methods or at the suggestion of members. Among his earliest demonstrations were discussions of the nature of air, the implosion of glass b... | from erecting a machine on this principle. Jenkins points out a number of errors in Robison's article, and questions whether the correspondent might in fact have been Newton, whom Hooke is known to have corresponded with, the name being misread as Newcomen. A search by Mr. H W Dickinson of Hooke's papers held by the Ro... |
are usually dumped at the same time, including the processor registers, which may include the program counter and stack pointer, memory management information, and other processor and operating system flags and information. A snapshot dump (or snap dump) is a memory dump requested by the computer operator or by the run... | systems, administrators and programmers can read core dump files using the GNU Binutils Binary File Descriptor library (BFD), and the GNU Debugger (gdb) and objdump that use this library. This library will supply the raw data for a given address in a memory region from a core dump; it does not know anything about varia... |
breaking existing programs. Reasons for flexibility include allowing compiler vendors to extend the specification by including non-standard features, different standard dialects of language to extend it, or future versions of the language to include additional features. For example, a procedural language may anticipate... | use in file scope; with C++03 further reserves identifiers that contain a double underscore anywhere – this allows the use of a double underscore as a separator (to connect user identifiers), for instance. The frequent use of a double underscores in internal identifiers in Python gave rise to the abbreviation dunder; t... |
at the Falls of the Ohio and ran west, crossing the Wabash River near Vincennes, Indiana. In Senator Thomas Hart Benton's phrase saluting these sagacious path-makers, the bison paved the way for the railroads to the Pacific. Mexico The southern extent of the historic range of the American bison includes northern Mexico... | bison are yaks, with bison being nested within the genus Bos, rendering Bos without including bison paraphyletic. The mitochondrial DNA of European bison is more closely related to that of domestic cattle and aurochs, which is either suggested to be the result of incomplete lineage sorting or ancient introgression. Bis... |
is the kernel of the surjection of A4 onto . We have the exact sequence . In Galois theory, this map, or rather the corresponding map , corresponds to associating the Lagrange resolvent cubic to a quartic, which allows the quartic polynomial to be solved by radicals, as established by Lodovico Ferrari. Conjugacy classe... | . Automorphism group For , except for , the automorphism group of An is the symmetric group Sn, with inner automorphism group An and outer automorphism group Z2; the outer automorphism comes from conjugation by an odd permutation. For and 2, the automorphism group is trivial. For the automorphism group is Z2, with triv... |
of integers: the composition of two even permutations is even the composition of two odd permutations is even the composition of an odd and an even permutation is odd From these it follows that the inverse of every even permutation is even the inverse of every odd permutation is odd Considering the symmetric group Sn o... | on n letters, denoted by An. It is the kernel of the homomorphism sgn. The odd permutations cannot form a subgroup, since the composite of two odd permutations is even, but they form a coset of An (in Sn). If , then there are just as many even permutations in Sn as there are odd ones; consequently, An contains n!/2 per... |
to recycle used cooking oil for conversion to biodiesel. The Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, completed in 2010, installed 24,000 solar panels on the roof of the reservoir. The 5-megawatt plant more than tripled the city's 2-megawatt solar generation capacity when it opened in December 2010. LGBT San Francisco has long ... | "declared itself a sanctuary city in 1989, and city officials strengthened the stance in 2013 with its 'Due Process for All' ordinance. The law declared local authorities could not hold immigrants for immigration officials if they had no violent felonies on their records and did not currently face charges." The city is... |
of language (see e.g. Church 1970). Alongside Alan Turing, Church has been considered one of the founders of computer science. Life Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903, in Washington, D.C., where his father, Samuel Robbins Church, was the judge of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia. The family later m... | of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia. The family later moved to Virginia after his father lost this position because of failing eyesight. With help from his uncle, also named Alonzo Church, the son attended the private Ridgefield School for Boys in Ridgefield, Connecticut. After graduating from Ridgefiel... |
the incorporation of India on January 19, 2018, it now has 43 members, including Australia, New Zealand, the European Commission, all 27 member states of the European Union, United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, India, Ukraine, and Argentina. The name comes from Australia's initiative to create the group. Australi... | need to be controlled so as not to contribute to the spread of chemical and biological weapons. The group, initially consisting of 15 members, held its first meeting in Brussels, Belgium, in June 1985. With the incorporation of India on January 19, 2018, it now has 43 members, including Australia, New Zealand, the Euro... |
ballets were performed in large chambers with viewers on three sides. The implementation of the proscenium arch from 1618 on distanced performers from audience members, who could then better view and appreciate the technical feats of the professional dancers in the productions. French court ballet reached its height un... | ballet Classical ballet is based on traditional ballet technique and vocabulary. Different styles have emerged in different countries, such as French ballet, Italian ballet, English ballet, and Russian ballet. Several of the classical ballet styles are associated with specific training methods, typically named after th... |
of an ice cream stand may sign a franchising agreement, under which the distributor agrees to provide ice cream stock under the terms "Net 60" with a ten percent discount on payment within 30 days, and a 20% discount on payment within 10 days. This means that the operator has 60 days to pay the invoice in full. If sale... | the operator has 60 days to pay the invoice in full. If sales are good within the first week, the operator may be able to send a cheque for all or part of the invoice, and make an extra 20% on the ice cream sold. However, if sales are slow, leading to a month of low cash flow, then the operator may decide to pay within... |
Swiss Plateau. Although fortified settlements were established since the antiquity, the medieval city proper was founded by the Zähringer ruling family, probably in 1191 by Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen. Bern was made a free imperial city in 1218 and, in 1353, it joined the Swiss Confederacy, becoming one of its eight ... | €560), a three-room apartment was about 1040.54 CHF (US$830, £470, €670) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2094.80 CHF (US$1680, £940, €1340). The average apartment price in Bern was 99.4% of the national average of 1116 CHF. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.45%. Historic population The ... |
and Charlemagne (r. 768–814), made their sale or export to foreigners illegal, punishable by forfeiture of property or even death. This was an attempt to limit the possession and use of this equipment by the Franks' enemies, including the Moors, the Vikings and the Slavs. The church used its position as a trans-nationa... | and thereby avert a global nuclear arms race, but the Soviet Union rejected the proposal and negotiations failed. Following President Eisenhower's 1953 Atoms for Peace speech to the UN General Assembly, the International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 to promote peaceful uses of nuclear technology and apply sa... |
bodies Cylindrical objects A solid cylindrical object or column with its length greater than its diameter, for example: Asherah pole, a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother-goddess Asherah, consort of El Barber's pole, advertising the barber shop Ceremonial pole... | wood Ski pole, a pole used by skiers to improve balance, speed and acceleration Spinnaker pole, a spar used in sailboats to help support and control a variety of headsails, particularly the spinnaker Trekking pole, also called hiking sticks or hiking poles, a pole used for hiking Geography and places Geographical pole,... |
Quick (UK band), a pop band from England Quick (dance group), a hip hop dance group Quick (album), a 1994 independently released album by Far Films Quick (1932 film), German film starring Lilian Harvey Quick (1993 film), American crime film starring Teri Polo Quick (2011 film), South Korean film Quick (2019 film),, als... | 1888, also known as Quick Nijmegen, an amateur sporting club from Nijmegen, the Netherlands Colloquial term for a fast bowler in cricket People and fictional characters Quick (surname), a list of people and fictional characters James Murphy (gridiron football) (born 1959), retired Canadian Football League player nickna... |
and is compelled to spend a night on a bench—"It was very uncomfortable—the arm of the seat cuts into your back—and much colder than I had expected"—rather than face his landlady over the outstanding rent. At the restaurant, the narrator finds himself working "seventeen and a half hours" a day, "almost without a break,... | X. Boris works even longer: "eighteen hours a day, seven days a week." The narrator claims that "such hours, though not usual, are nothing extraordinary in Paris." He adds by the way, that the Auberge was not the ordinary cheap eating-house frequented by students and workmen. We did not provide an adequate meal at less... |
via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened. They have been used in terrorist attacks such as those of the Unabomber. Some countries have agencies whose duties include the interdiction of letter bombs and the investigation of letter bombings. The letter bomb may h... | with a "deadly" letter-bomb made partly out of bullets, but the bomb was intercepted by London postal workers before it could reach him. Patentability Letter-bombs, along with anti-personnel mines, are typical examples of subject-matter excluded from patentability under the European Patent Convention, because the publi... |
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