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(qid = "cue eye dee") or using the English expansion (qid = "four times a day"). Some common medical abbreviations Notation conventions This series of lists omits periods from acronyms and initialisms. It uses periods for certain abbreviations that traditionally often have them (mostly older Latin/Neo-Latin abbreviatio... | more than one possible interpretation). Certain medical abbreviations are avoided to prevent mistakes, according to best practices (and in some cases regulatory requirements); these are flagged in the list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions. Orthographic styling Periods (stops) Periods (stops) are often use... |
declares himself king of Hanzhong afterwards. Guan Yu floods the fortress at Fan (present-day Fancheng District, Xiangyang, Hubei) in the Battle of Fancheng, while Lü Meng captures his base in Jing Province. Guan Yu retreats to Maicheng, falls into an ambush, and gets captured by Sun Quan's forces. Cao Cao controls the... | in Jing Province. Guan Yu retreats to Maicheng, falls into an ambush, and gets captured by Sun Quan's forces. Cao Cao controls the Yellow River basin and northern China. Sun Quan rules southern China. Liu Bei controls Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan and Chongqing). Tuoba Liwei becomes the first chieftain of t... |
February 27 – Battle of Fritzlar: The Conradines defeat the Babenberg counts, to establish themselves as dukes of Franconia (modern-day Bavaria). Count Conrad the Elder is killed in the battle, his son Conrad the Younger becomes duke of Franconia. Summer – Duke Mojmir II halts the advance of the plundering Hungarians u... | Asia January 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong secretly puts Empress Dowager He, the wife of the late Emperor Zhaozong and mother of the reigning Emperor Ai, to death (by strangulation) and has her defamed and posthumously demoted to commoner rank. Armenia 906 K'argop' earthquake. It took place in the monastery K'argop', ... |
imaging is a specific form of CT to assess flow through blood vessels whilst injecting a contrast agent. Blood flow, blood transit time, and organ blood volume, can all be calculated with reasonable sensitivity and specificity. This type of CT may be used on the heart, although sensitivity and specificity for detecting... | reconstruction algorithms to produce tomographic (cross-sectional) images (virtual "slices") of a body. The use of ionizing radiation sometimes restricts its use owing to its adverse effects. However, CT can be used in patients with metallic implants or pacemakers, for whom MRI is contraindicated. Since its development... |
centered in Sichuan province, in Southwest China. December 1 – The Wuyue Kingdom is founded by the warlord Qian Liu in Hangzhou. His proclaims himself king, his power is centered in Jiangsu province (Eastern China). By topic Religion February 1 – Nicholas I Mystikos is deposed as Patriarch of Constanstinople, (having f... | killing most of the other Khitan chieftains. He occupies territories along China's northern border including parts of Hebei and Shanxi provinces. May 12 The short-lived Qi Kingdom is founded by the warlord Li Maozhen (Prince of Qi). His power is centered in Shaanxi province, in Northwest China. The Tang dynasty comes t... |
river, Atenulf defeats an Arab army and reaches the walls of their fortified camp. However, the sudden withdrawal of the Neapolitans renders the siege useless. Ireland September 13 – Battle of Belach Mugna: High King Flann Sinna defeats, in an alliance with the kings Cerball mac Muirecáin of Leinster, Cathal mac Concho... | Wise), is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire by Patriarch Euthymius I at Constantinople. The ceremony is held in the Hagia Sophia. After the rituals, Constantine is crowned (symbolically) and becomes Leo's successor. Europe August 3 – Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats the East Frankish ... |
12 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis IV (the Child), using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. Count Gausbert, the actual commander of the East Frankish army (because Louis IV is only 16 years old at this time), is killed in the battle. June 22 – ... | places the monastery directly under the control of the Papal See. Gabriel I becomes Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria (Egypt). Births Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg (approximate date) Eadgyth, Anglo-Saxon princess and queen of Germany (d. 946) Fernán González, count of Castile (approximate date) Fujiw... |
becomes a vassal and is made Count of Rouen, this is the beginning of the kingdom of Normandy. He divides the lands between the rivers Epte and Risle among his chieftains, and prevents any other Vikings sailing up the Seine to attack the West Frankish Kingdom. The Hungarians cross Bavaria, and invade Swabia and Francon... | tribesmen were previously the main supporters of the Shi'ite regime. By topic Religion April 14 – Pope Sergius III dies at Rome after a 7-year reign. He is succeeded by Anastasius III as the 120th pope of the Catholic Church. Births Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Kalbi, Fatimid emir (d. 964) Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynast... |
There are two ways in which states balance power: internal balancing and external balancing. Internal balancing occurs as states grow their own capabilities by increasing economic growth and/or increasing military spending. External balancing occurs as states enter into alliances to check the power of more powerful sta... | abilities determines the distribution of capabilities. The structural distribution of capabilities then limits cooperation among states through fears of relative gains made by other states, and the possibility of dependence on other states. The desire and relative abilities of each state to maximize relative power cons... |
of Valdejunquera, the Muslim forces of the Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Córdoba, defeat the Christian armies of King Ordoño II of León and King Sancho I of Pamplona. The decisive battle at the Val de Junquera takes place following the Emir's pre-emptive strike and his invasion of the upper Douro valley and the capture of ... | 992) Athanasius the Athonite, Byzantine monk (approximate date) Dunash ben Labrat, Spanish Jewish commentator (d. 990) Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (d. 969) Gao Baorong, king of Nanping (Ten Kingdoms) (d. 960) Goltregoda, Frankish countess and regent (d. 963) Guntram the Rich, founder of the House of Habsbu... |
(the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silvanus (or, less frequently, year 752 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 2 BC for this year has been used ... | Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silvanus (or, less frequently, year 752 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 2 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. ... |
shortly after she was attacked in Aden, Yemen. Two al-Qaeda terrorists brought an inflatable Zodiac-type speedboat that carried a bomb alongside guided missile destroyer Cole, while the ship refueled, and detonated their lethal cargo, killing 17 sailors and wounding 42 more. The crewmember's heroic damage control effor... | wounding 42 more. The crewmember's heroic damage control efforts saved Cole. Hawes, Cmdr. J. Scott Jones in command, joined (13 October – October) other ships that took part in Operation Determined Response to assist Cole including: amphibious assault ship ; dock landing ship ; amphibious transport dock ; guided missil... |
France a major sea power. In 1660, his Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban to build a new arsenal and to fortify the town. In 1707, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Toulon successfully resisted a siege by the Imperial Army led by Duke Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia of Savoy and... | Duchesne gives Augustalis as the first historical bishop. He assisted at councils in 441 and 442 and signed in 449 and 450 the letters addressed to Pope Leo I from the province of Arles. A Saint Cyprian, disciple and biographer of St. Cæsarius of Arles, is also mentioned as a Bishop of Toulon. His episcopate, begun in ... |
Bannockburn Heritage Centre). Though the exact location for the battle is uncertain, a modern monument was erected in a field above a possible site of the battlefield, where the warring parties are believed to have camped, alongside a statue of Robert Bruce designed by Pilkington Jackson. The monument, along with the a... | or lose their lands. Stirling Castle, a Scots royal fortress occupied by the English, was under siege by the Scottish army. King Edward assembled a formidable force of soldiers to relieve it – the largest army ever to invade Scotland. The English summoned 25,000 infantry soldiers and 2,000 horses from England, Ireland ... |
the shipyard that has built the Batavia replica. After the Second World War the Zuiderzee Works continued, constructing the polder of Eastern Flevoland. In 1950 work commenced on several construction islands in the middle of the IJsselmeer. Lelystad-Haven was the largest island, and its wooden barracks housed a communi... | internationally famous nature park of Oostvaardersplassen, which arose naturally when the polder of South Flevoland was drained. Lelystad is also surrounded by a square of woodlands and parks and flat farmland. The importance of the landscape and sky is emphasized by several pieces of land art: engineers' work and work... |
. The river IJssel flows into the IJsselmeer. History Two thousand years ago Pomponius Mela, a Roman geographer, mentioned a complex of lakes at the current location of the IJsselmeer. He called it Lacus Flevo. Over the centuries, the lake banks crumbled away due to flooding and wave action and the lake grew considerab... | never progressed beyond the planning stage. It was only after the flood of 1916 that the legislature approved the Zuiderzee Works, a major hydraulic engineering project that involved building dykes, draining parts of the Zuiderzee and constructing the Afsluitdijk to keep tides and high water out. In 1932 the Zuiderzee ... |
during the Roman Empire, Latins came to mean mostly unified Italic Latin-speaking people and the Latin-speaking people of Italia, Gaul, Hispania and Dacia whose land was settled by Roman colonists. In the late 15th–16th centuries, a millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, with a number of maritime discov... | people of Italia, Gaul, Hispania and Dacia whose land was settled by Roman colonists. In the late 15th–16th centuries, a millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, with a number of maritime discoveries, first Portugal, then Spain and then France began to build world empires, in the Americas, Sub-Saharas and... |
occasional revenues; a total of 2,000 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (religious endowment) in the name of the Mamluk sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (). Turabay rule was occasionally interrupted, including in 1564, when a certain Kemal Bey was appointed sanjak-bey (district governor) by the Ottomans. On 15 October 1564... | is conducted to a large masonry reservoir, near the west side, of good squared stonework, with a long stone trough. This reservoir was built by 'And el Hady, Mudir of Acre, in the first half of the century [..], north of the town is the little mosque of 'Ezz ed Din, with a good- sized dome and a minaret." British Manda... |
Dio, Vindex "was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition". In order to gain support, he declared his allegiance to the then governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, Servius Sulpicius Galba. Th... | in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis. He was of a noble Gallic family of Aquitania (given senatorial status under Claudius) and was one of the men belonging to a faction of Empress Agrippina, the mother of Nero. Vindex had taken part in a conspiracy against the emperor in 59. However, with the assassination of Agrippi... |
same source points out that "rigging" a sailing vessel refers to putting all the components in place to allow it to function, including the masts, spars, sails and the rigging. Types of rigging Rigging is divided into two classes, standing, which supports the mast (and bowsprit), and running, which controls the orienta... | pairs of deadeyes, circular blocks that have the large-diameter line run around them, whilst multiple holes allow smaller line—lanyards—to pass multiple times between the two and thereby allow tensioning of the shroud. In addition to overlapping the mast below, the top mast and topgallant mast are supported laterally b... |
British Empire (CBE) 2010: A Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) 2010: The Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM), Hong Kong SAR Society and academy recognition Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA (1979 election) Fellow, The Institution of Engineering and Technol... | combine glass fibers with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet. Kao was born in Shanghai; his family moved to Hong Kong when he was about 15. He grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong before moving to London to study electrical engineering. In the 1960s, Kao wor... |
distances of 100 kilometres pipeline transport of biomass can be viable provided it is used in processes that can accept very wet feedstocks such as hydrothermal liquefaction or ethanol fermentation. Compared to an equivalently sized oil pipeline, a biomass slurry pipeline would carry around 8% of the energy. Process T... | pipeline is planned for the Minas-Rio iron ore mine in Brazil. Slurry pipelines are also being considered to desilt or remove silts from deposits behind dams in man-made lakes. After the Hurricane Katrina disaster there were proposals to remedy the environment by pumping silt to the shore. Proposals have also been made... |
album by acoustic duo Ira Stein and Russel Walder, released 1986 Transit (Sponge Cola album) Transit (A. J. Croce album) Transit Transit, an album by the band Autolux Transit (rapper), real name Dan Bennett, Canadian indie hip-hop artist Science and technology Computing Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which ... | Transit Transit, an album by the band Autolux Transit (rapper), real name Dan Bennett, Canadian indie hip-hop artist Science and technology Computing Internet transit, one of two mechanisms by which Internet traffic is exchanged between internet service providers Transit Format, a format libraries conveying for values ... |
Czech Republic Břest France Brest, France, a city and harbour in Brittany Germany Brest, Germany, a municipality North Macedonia Brest, Čučer-Sandevo Brest, Makedonski Brod Brest, a village in | as Brest-Litovsk Brest Region Bulgaria Brest, Kyustendil Province Czech Republic Břest France Brest, France, a city and harbour in Brittany Germany Brest, Germany, a municipality North |
According to Ovid (43 BC–17 AD), the sirens were the companions of young Persephone. Demeter gave them wings to search for Persephone when she was abducted by Hades. However, the Fabulae of Hyginus (64 BC–17 AD) has Demeter cursing the sirens for failing to intervene in the abduction of Persephone. According to Hyginus... | an endorsement of the Greek myth. Middle Ages The early Christian euhemerist interpretation of mythologized human beings received a long-lasting boost from the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville: Italian poet Dante Alighieri depicts a siren in Canto 19 of Purgatorio, the second canticle of the Divine Comedy. Here, the p... |
exploitation, but there are protections from false alarms. These sirens can also be tied into other networks such as a fire department's volunteer notification/paging system. The basics of this type of installation would consist of a device (possibly the same pager the firefighters have) connected to the controller/tim... | signal was played after the area had been deemed safe for the general public. Since the 1990s, civil defense sirens have been replaced by electronic sirens and the procedure has been simplified. As of 2013, there are four playable tones: a natural disaster warning, an upcoming air/nuclear strike, an imminent air/nuclea... |
of Britain. Route details Starting from Sheringham station, the lines follows the coast westwards, soon passing over the Automatic Open Crossing at Sweetbriar Lane, where the private road leading to Sheringham Golf Club crosses the line. The line climbs a 1 in 97 gradient, with the golf course, and Skelding Hill, on th... | Holmes, and Reel History of Britain. Route details Starting from Sheringham station, the lines follows the coast westwards, soon passing over the Automatic Open Crossing at Sweetbriar Lane, where the private road leading to Sheringham Golf Club crosses the line. The line climbs a 1 in 97 gradient, with the golf course,... |
locality), name of several urban localities in Russia The Kropotkins, American musical group founded by Dave Soldier in 1994 People with the surname Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin (1910–1996), Soviet/Russian geologist, | (1842–1921) was a Russian prince and anarchist. Kropotkin may also refer to: Biographies of the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel, a reprint of the 1950 biography by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović. Kropotkin (biography), a 1976 biography by Martin A. Miller Mount Kropotkin, a peak in |
onto the substrate as a result of a chemical reaction. Gilding is a traditional way to attach a gold layer onto metals by applying a very thin sheet of gold held in place by an adhesive History It has been theorized that the first electroplating was done in Parthian Empire era. Wilhelm König was an assistant at the Nat... | power the more uniform the coating. Strike Initially, a special plating deposit called a strike or flash may be used to form a very thin (typically less than 0.1 μm thick) plating with high quality and good adherence to the substrate. This serves as a foundation for subsequent plating processes. A strike uses a high cu... |
"ap Hywel"), Fernández (son of Fernando), Rodríguez (son of Rodrigo), Andersson or Andersen (son of Anders, Scandinavian form of Andrew), Carlsen (son of Carl), Ilyin (of Ilya), Petrov (of Peter), Grigorovich (son of Grigory, Russian form of Gregory), Stefanović (son of Stefan, little Stefan), MacAllister (from "mac Al... | view of Jesus). An Arabic patronymic can be extended as far back as family tree records will allow: thus, for example, Ibn Khaldun gave his own full name as "`Abd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn `Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khaldun". Patronymics ar... |
South African Society of Cinematographers (S.A.S.C.) the Spanish Society of Cinematography Works (A.E.C) the International Federation of Cinematographers (IMAGO) the Uruguayan Society of Cinematographers (S.C.U) the Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers (LAC) Cinematographers XX Illuminatrix The A.S.C. defines cin... | the director allows little to none, even going so far as to specify exact camera placement and lens selection. Such a level of involvement is less common when the director and cinematographer have become comfortable with each other. The director will typically convey to the cinematographer what is wanted from a scene v... |
(1973) Nightmare Blue (1975) (with Gardner Dozois) Felicia (1976) Those Gentle Voices: A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways (1976) Death in Florence (1978) (aka Utopia 3) Heroics (1979) The Wolves of Memory (1981) Shadow Money (1988) The Red Tape War (1990) (with Mike Resnick and Jack L. Chalker) The Zork Chronicles (... | Circuit's Edge (1990), based on When Gravity Fails. He began a fourth Budayeen novel, Word of Night, but completed only the first two chapters. Those two chapters were reprinted in the anthology Budayeen Nights (2003) which has all of Effinger's short material from the Marîd Audran setting. His novelette "Schrödinger's... |
of Russia. In this period, thousands of Eastern workers were brought to the city as forced labor, and in the 1943–1945 period at least 360 children taken away from such workers died in the Entbindungsheim für Ostarbeiterinnen ("Maternity Ward for Eastern Workers"). In 1944, a subcamp of the concentration camp Neuengamm... | sister of Richard the Lionheart. However, his son Otto, who could regain influence and was eventually crowned Holy Roman Emperor, continued to foster the city's development. During the Middle Ages, Brunswick was an important center of trade, one of the economic and political centers in Northern Europe and a member of t... |
drug prohibition legislation is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, criticism includes: Drug classification: making a hash of it?, Fifth Report of Session 2005–06, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, which said that the present system of drug classification is based on historical assumptions, not scientific as... | was established at the 1890 Shanghai Missionary Conference, where British and American representatives, including John Glasgow Kerr, Arthur E. Moule, Arthur Gostick Shorrock and Griffith John, agreed to establish the Permanent Committee for the Promotion of Anti-Opium Societies. Due to increasing pressure in the Britis... |
sensor, the superconducting bolometer, the superconducting tunnel junction detector, the kinetic inductance detector, and the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector railgun and coilgun magnets electric motors and generators Low-temperature superconductivity Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic... | including use in NMR and MRI systems. Commercial systems are now available in each category. Also one intrinsic attribute of HTS is that it can withstand much higher magnetic fields than LTS, so HTS at liquid helium temperatures are being explored for very high-field inserts inside LTS magnets. Promising future industr... |
in 1559 suggested to the tailor John Stow to become a chronicler (as Stow recalled in 1604). Robert Dudley's interest in the theatre was manifold, from academic plays at Oxford to the protection of the Children of St. Paul's and of the Royal Chapel, and their respective masters, against hostile bishops and landlords. F... | every occasion by my marriage to withdraw any good from me", Leicester wrote even after seven years of marriage. Colleagues and politics For the first 30 years of Elizabeth's reign, until Leicester's death, he and Lord Burghley were the most powerful and important political figures, working intimately with the Queen. R... |
and in the final stages moved to Toruń. Terms In the treaty, the Teutonic Order renounced any claims to the territories of Gdańsk/Eastern Pomerania and Chełmno Land, which were reintegrated with Poland, and the region of Elbing (Elbląg) and Marienburg (Malbork), and the Bishopric of Warmia, which were also recognized a... | (Chełmno) and Thorn, and the Prussian gentry against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in the Monastic State, in order to join the Kingdom of Poland. Both sides agreed to seek confirmation from Pope Paul II and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, but the Polish side stressed (and the Teutonic side agreed) that this confir... |
proxy methods from Earth and life sciences to obtain data previously preserved within rocks, sediments, boreholes, ice sheets, tree rings, corals, shells, and microfossils. Combined with techniques to date the proxies, the paleoclimate records are used to determine the past states of Earth's atmosphere. The scientific ... | Event) Later Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth (~600 Mya, precursor to the Cambrian Explosion) Andean-Saharan glaciation (~450 Mya) Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse (~300 Mya) Permian–Triassic extinction event (251.4 Mya) Oceanic anoxic events (~120 Mya, 93 Mya, and others) Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event ( Mya) Pal... |
Culham Diocesan Training College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He moved to the Scottish border region, where he investigated the previously little-known fossil fauna of the area. He was headmaster of the school in Galashiels from 1864 to 1875. In 1869 he married Janet, daughter of Galashiels schoolmaster Walter Sanderson... | in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) the son of James Lapworth. He trained as a teacher at the Culham Diocesan Training College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He moved to the Scottish border region, where he investigated the previously little-known fossil fauna of the area. He was headmaster of the school in Galashiels from 186... |
conditioning techniques. Talwar himself has acknowledged the ethical issues apparent in the development of the robo-rat, but points out that the research meets standards for animal treatment laid down by the National Institute of Health. Moreover, the researchers emphasize that the animals are trained, not coerced, int... | in the sensorimotor cortex via its backpack that causes the rat to feel a sensation in its left or right whiskers, and stimulation in the MFB that is interpreted as a reward or pleasure. After a period of training and conditioning using MFB stimulation as a reward, the rats can be remotely directed to move left, right,... |
Great Council, and had begun to rise in prominence throughout the 14th century. Francesco's ancestors began holding high public office, and his father Nicolò even became a member of the powerful Council of Ten. Francesco served the Republic of Venice in numerous official capacities—as ambassador, president of the Counc... | Two further trials, in 1450 and 1456 - during the latter he confessed to, without even the need of torture, of having pleaded for help the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the aforementioned Duke of Milan, both Venice's enemies - led to Jacopo's imprisonment on Crete and his eventual death there soon after. News of Jacopo'... |
length of the tunnel to the place in which the miners were working. That avoided the need for additional ventilation shafts, which could have been observed by the enemy, and it also easily disguised the diggers' progress. On July 17, the main shaft reached under the Confederate position. Rumors of a mine construction s... | trenches and artillery points behind his position as a precaution. Shafts were also sunk by the Confederates in an effort to intercept the passage. Pleasants became aware of the Confederate's counter-movements and was able to frustrate their effort by changing the direction of the main and lateral galleries while incre... |
letter designation (with superscripts to designate specific subtypes). He proceeds to analyze individual tales by transposing them into this notation and then to generalize about their structure. For example: Analysis of a simple, single-move tale of class H-I, of the type: kidnapping of a person. 131. A tsar, three da... | Folktale (orig. Russian pub. 1928; English trans. 1958) provides an example of the formal and systematic approach. In successive chapters, Propp analyzes the characters, plot events, and other elements of traditional folktales (primarily from Russia and Eastern Europe). For each of these key components he provides a le... |
or her dreams. * Freud was regarded as the father of psychoanalysis—the method defined as you can on your screen. When we apply these same methods to our interpretations of works of literature, we engage in psychoanalytic criticism. It is said that psychoanalytic criticism is more of an approach to literary interpretat... | as the intellectual founding father of this form of criticism. Psychoanalytic criticism views the artists, including authors, as neurotic. However, they escape many of the outward manifestations and end results of neurosis by finding in the act of creating his or her art a pathway back to saneness and wholeness. * Cent... |
by humans, especially during summertime. These include refuse, birdseed, agricultural products and honey from apiaries. The majority of the American black bear's animal diet consists of insects, such as bees, yellow jackets, ants and their larvae. American black bears are also fond of honey and will gnaw through trees ... | on prickly pear cactus. At least two distinct, prime habitat types are inhabited in the Southeastern United States. American black bears in the southern Appalachian Mountains survive in predominantly oak-hickory and mixed mesophytic forests. In the coastal areas of the Southeast (such as Florida, the Carolinas and Loui... |
Huron has the largest shore line length of any of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands. It is separated from Lake Michigan, which lies at the same level, by the , Straits of Mackinac, making them hydrologically the same body of water (sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron and sometimes described as two 'lobes of... | Lake Huron. Of these, 185 are located in Saginaw Bay, and 116 are found in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, which was established in 2000. Georgian Bay contains 212 sunken vessels. Purportedly the first European vessel to sail the Great Lakes, Le Griffon, also became the first ship los... |
women writers and their writings from a female perspective, and increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style were developed by Lisa Tuttle in the 1980s, and have since been adopted by a majority of feminist critics. The history of feminist literary criticism is extensive, from classic works of ninete... | femininity and complicate our common assumptions about gender politics by accessing different categories of identity (race, class, sexual orientation, etc.) The ultimate goal of any of these tools is to uncover and expose patriarchal underlying tensions within novels and interrogate the ways in which our basic literary... |
a part of sewerage, the infrastructure that conveys sewage. Types of sewers include: Combined sewer Effluent sewer Gravity sewer Sanitary sewer Storm sewer Vacuum | Combined sewer Effluent sewer Gravity sewer Sanitary sewer Storm sewer Vacuum sewer Other uses: Sewer, one who does sewing See also Sewage, wastewater produced |
the extent of the needs to be satisfied. Equilibrium is established without any trouble and production regulates itself. Durkheim contrasted the condition of anomie as being the result of a malfunction of organic solidarity after the transition to mechanical solidarity: Durkheim's use of anomie was in regards to the ph... | that the discontinuity between culture and structure have the dysfunctional consequence of leading to deviance within society. He described 5 types of deviance in terms of the acceptance or rejection of social goals and the institutionalized means of achieving them. Etymology The term anomie—"a reborrowing with French ... |
other elemental superconductors are type-I. Critical temperatures of some elemental superconductors: Most compound and alloy superconductors are type-II materials. The most commonly used conventional superconductor in applications is a niobium-titanium alloy - this is a type-II superconductor with a superconducting cri... | elemental superconductors are conventional. Niobium and vanadium are type-II, while most other elemental superconductors are type-I. Critical temperatures of some elemental superconductors: Most compound and alloy superconductors are type-II materials. The |
written: In this form, the first premise can be satisfied by the formation rule, giving the first two premises of the previous form. In this article we shall elide the "prop" judgments where they are understood. In the nullary case, one can derive truth from no premises. If the truth of a proposition can be established... | judgment "A ∧ (B ∧ C) true". This is a hypothetical derivation, which we write as follows: The interpretation is: "B true is derivable from A ∧ (B ∧ C) true". Of course, in this specific example we actually know the derivation of "B true" from "A ∧ (B ∧ C) true", but in general we may not a priori know the derivation. ... |
in Russia and arrest On returning to Russia, Kropotkin's friend Dmitri Klements introduced him to the Circle of Tchaikovsky, a socialist/populist group created in 1872. Kropotkin worked to spread revolutionary propaganda among peasants and workers, and acted as a bridge between the Circle and the aristocracy. Throughou... | year. He attended the Anarchist Congress in London from 14 July 1881. Other delegates included Marie Le Compte, Errico Malatesta, Saverio Merlino, Louise Michel, Nicholas Tchaikovsky, and Émile Gautier. While respecting "complete autonomy of local groups", the congress defined propaganda actions that all could follow a... |
are taking thalidomide. Overdose As of 2013, eighteen cases of overdoses had been reported with doses of up to 14.4 grams, none of them fatal. No specific antidote for overdose exists and treatment is purely supportive. Pharmacology The precise mechanism of action for thalidomide is not known, although efforts to ident... | mid-1950s, 14 pharmaceutical companies were marketing thalidomide in 46 countries under at least 37 different trade names. In the US, representatives from Chemie Grünenthal approached Smith, Kline & French (SKF), now GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), with a request to market and distribute the drug in North America. A memorandum,... |
magnetic resonance to characterize synthesized compounds. Chucks are used in the metalworking field to hold objects. Magnets are also used in other types of fastening devices, such as the magnetic base, the magnetic clamp and the refrigerator magnet. Compasses: A compass (or mariner's compass) is a magnetized pointer f... | bobbin attached to the speaker cone and carries the signal as changing current that interacts with the field of the permanent magnet. The voice coil feels a magnetic force and in response, moves the cone and pressurizes the neighboring air, thus generating sound. Dynamic microphones employ the same concept, but in reve... |
of Richmond upon Thames The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, colloquially known as Richmond borough Richmond Hill, London Museum of Richmond in Richmond, London Richmond Palace, previously known as Shene Palace Richmond Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Richmond, The American International Unive... | Richmond, Invercargill, a minor suburb, South Island South Africa Richmond, Northern Cape Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal United Kingdom Richmond, London, previously known as Shene, a town formerly in Surrey and now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, colloquially known as ... |
where he attended the school of Erasmus. It is not known whether his first language was Finnish or Swedish; Pernå was mostly a Swedish-speaking district, but the language he used in his works indicates that he was a native speaker of Finnish. However, he mastered both languages like a native speaker and was possibly a ... | reformer, although he did remove the Canon of the Mass. Death In 1557, Agricola headed a delegation going to Russia on a diplomatic mission, and was in Moscow from 21 February to 24 March negotiating a peace treaty, the Treaty of Novgorod (1557). On 9 April he fell ill and died on Kyrönniemi peninsula near the Uusikirk... |
with Tc up to 107 K, and thallium barium calcium copper oxide (TBCCO) (T=thallium) with Tc of 125 K were discovered. The current record critical temperature is about Tc = 133 K (−140 °C) at standard pressure, and somewhat higher critical temperatures can be achieved at high pressure. Nevertheless, at present it is cons... | experiment (see below) seems to detect d symmetry in some HTS. Interlayer coupling model Secondly, there is the interlayer coupling model, according to which a layered structure consisting of BCS-type (s symmetry) superconductor can enhance the superconductivity by itself. By introducing an additional tunneling interac... |
County, Nebraska Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County, Ohio Jefferson County, Oklahoma Jefferson County, Oregon Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Jefferson County, Tennessee Jefferson County, Texas Jefferson County, Virginia, has existed twice; the two counties continue in existence as Jefferson County, Kentucky an... | County, Iowa Jefferson County, Kansas Jefferson County, Kentucky Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Jefferson County, Mississippi Jefferson County, Missouri Jefferson County, Montana Jefferson County, Nebraska Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County, Ohio Jefferson County, Oklahoma Jefferson County, Oregon Jefferson Count... |
Magdeburg against the Magyars. Summer – Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria ("the Bad"), is elected as anti-king by the East-Frankish nobles in opposition to Henry I. Burchard II, duke of Swabia, submits to Henry's rule — allowing him to retain administrative control over his duchy. After an absence of nearly 15 years, the Magyars... | rule. Henry fortifies Magdeburg against the Magyars. Summer – Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria ("the Bad"), is elected as anti-king by the East-Frankish nobles in opposition to Henry I. Burchard II, duke of Swabia, submits to Henry's rule — allowing him to retain administrative control over his duchy. After an absence of nearly... |
She is buried with her husband Æthelred in St. Oswald's Priory at Gloucester. Æthelflæd is succeeded by her only daughter Ælfwynn. Kings Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Hywel ap Cadell, and Prince Clydog of Deheubarth (Wales) submit to the overlordship of Edward the Elder. The Vikings raid Anglesey. Asia July 25 – Wang Kon, ... | Æthelflæd is succeeded by her only daughter Ælfwynn. Kings Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Hywel ap Cadell, and Prince Clydog of Deheubarth (Wales) submit to the overlordship of Edward the Elder. The Vikings raid Anglesey. Asia July 25 – Wang Kon, a Korean general, overthrows the government of the short-lived state Ho Gogury... |
King Conrad I of the East Frankish Kingdom. After this event, Bavaria and Swabia agree to pay tribute to the Hungarians. Battle of Confey: The Norse Vikings under Sigtrygg Caech defeat and kill King Augaire mac Ailella of Leinster in battle. Sigtrygg re-captures Dublin and establishes himself as king, while his kinsman... | King of Northumbria. Britain Summer – Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia cements an alliance with King Constantine II of Scotland against Norse York. She captures the fortress at Derby (belonging to the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw), while her brother, King Edward the Elder, takes Towcester. Æthelflæd's armies also ravage Bryche... |
Berbers in Agrigento revolt and depose the independent Emir Ahmed ibn Khorob. They offer Sicily to the Fatimid Caliphate in Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia). Caliph Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah welcomes this turn of events, but refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Sai... | refuses to grant the Berber rulers their autonomy. He sends a Fatimid expeditionary force under Abu Said Musa which lands in Sicily and, with some difficulty, takes control of the island. Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah appoints Salam ibn Rashid as the emir of Sicily. Ahmed ibn Khorob is dispatched to Raqqada and executed. Br... |
from the sea by the Byzantine navy. After three months of siege, plagued by hunger, the Saracens decide to break out of Garigliano and find their way back to Sicily by any means possible. Christian hunting parties fall on the fleeing Arabs, and all are captured and executed. July – The Magyars (Hungarians), led by Zolt... | December 3 – John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians. Births January 13 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976) Abu Shakur Balkhi, Persian poet Adalbert I, Frankish nobleman (approximate date) Al-Mu... |
Shortly after al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah enters Alexandria, with the rest of his army. December – The Fatimid army under Hubasa leaves Alexandria, followed by al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah. The Abbassid troops hold Fustat and begin a counter-offensive against the invaders. The Kutama cavalry suffers heavy losses to the Turkish arch... | in Lazio at Trevi (in the Sabine Hills, near Palestrina) and Sutri. From here, they encroach on the papal cities of Orte, Narni and Nepi with impunity. Viking raiders establish a settlement near Waterford (Ireland) led by Ottir (the Black). The Dublin Vikings are forced to pay tribute to the Irish kings of Meath and Le... |
a 5-year reign. He succeeds his father as the ruler of Later Liang. By topic Religion Euthymius I is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople, and Nicholas Mystikos is restored. Births November 23 – Otto I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 973) Alberic II, princeps and duke of Spoleto (d. 954) Frederick I, duke of Up... | Carolingian. Duke Erchanger II of Swabia and Conrad's brother, Duke Eberhard III of Franconia, support the Conradines. Orso II Participazio becomes the doge of Venice. He sends his son Pietro to Constantinople in order to re-establish the relationship with Alexander III. King Ordoño II of Galicia continues his expansio... |
for high voice, two piccolos and bassoon ("Ick sitze da un' esse Klops" – Berliner Lied) 1927 : Vom Tod im Wald (Death in the Forest), Op. 23, ballad for bass solo and ten wind instruments, text: Bertolt Brecht 1928 : "Berlin im Licht-Song", slow-fox, text: Kurt Weill; composed for the exhibition Berlin im Licht, first... | in Ladenburg, a suburb of Mannheim – his date and place of death are unknown but this was probably during The Holocaust), a composer and arranger who collaborated with Max Reger and who dedicated Aquarelles, Op. 25, to him. Caesar's younger brother was (born May 12, 1873, Mannheim – died 1942, Theresienstadt concentrat... |
his brother Cadell is finally able to take his rightful place on the Seisyllwg throne. Autumn – King Alfred the Great blockades the Lea River and builds fortifications, trapping the Danes Vikings at Hertford. They abandon their longships and escape to Bridgnorth, located in the Severn Valley. Arabian Empire Hamdan ibn ... | summons the Imperial Diet in his residence at Worms. Angered by the non-appearance of Charles the Simple, he again supports Odo's claim to the throne of the West Frankish Kingdom. In the same assembly, he crowns Zwentibold as king of Lotharingia. Guy IV, duke of Spoleto, conquers Benevento (after the Byzantines have mo... |
mobilizes his Bulgarian forces and invades Byzantine territory, ravaging the countryside. Europe Spring – King Arnulf of Carinthia invades Italy at the head of an East Frankish expeditionary army, joining up with the deposed king Berengar I at Verona. He conquers Brescia after little resistance, and sacks Bergamo after... | is succeeded by his eldest son Mojmir II. The Principality of Nitra (modern-day Slovakia) is given as an appanage to his brother Svatopluk II. Árpád, head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes, comes to an agreement with the prince of the Moravians, Svatopluk II, that Hungarian and Moravian armies will together ... |
calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 751 Ab urbe condita). The denomination | Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 751 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 3 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire King Maroboduus of the Marcomanni... |
the new ruler. Herod Antipas becomes tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. The Governor of Syria, Publius Quintilius Varus, assembles three of his four legions, including Legio X Fretensis, and marches down to Jerusalem from Antioch to restore order. He crucifies 2,000 Jewish rebels. Asia c. October – The Naikū of Ise Grand S... | of Galilee and Perea. The Governor of Syria, Publius Quintilius Varus, assembles three of his four legions, including Legio X Fretensis, and marches down to Jerusalem from Antioch to restore order. He crucifies 2,000 Jewish rebels. Asia c. October – The Naikū of Ise Grand Shrine is founded in Japan, according to chapte... |
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by a rebellious nephew after a three year reign. Shi Zong is succeeded by his uncle Mu Zong as ruler of the Liao Dynasty. November 16 – Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force (10,000 men) under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Ki... | Henry II (the Wrangler), duke of Bavaria (d. 995) Ibn al-Kattani, Moorish scholar and physician (d. 1029) Liu Chenggui, official of the Song Dynasty (d. 1016) Romuald, founder of the Camaldolese order (approximate date) Sidi Mahrez, Muslim scholar and 'protector' (wali) (d. 1022) Zhao Dezhao (Yi of Yan), prince of the ... |
The duties of the principal secretary were not defined formally, but as he handled all royal correspondence and determined the agenda of council meetings, he could wield great influence in all matters of policy and in every field of government, both foreign and domestic. During his term of office, Walsingham supported ... | VI intended to give Walsingham a valuable diamond ring as a parting gift, but James Stewart, Earl of Arran, who Walsingham had ignored, substituted a ring of crystal. A mutual defence pact was eventually agreed in the Treaty of Berwick of 1586. Walsingham's cousin Edward Denny fought in Ireland during the rebellion of ... |
In biology, poisons are substances that can cause death, injury or harm to organs, tissues, cells, and DNA usually by chemical reactions or other activity on the molecular scale, when an organism is exposed to a sufficient quantity. In a metaphorical broader use of term it may refer to any thing deemed harmful. The fie... | by animals, vegetables or bacteria, such as the bacterial proteins that cause tetanus and botulism. A distinction between the two terms is not always observed, even among scientists. The derivative forms "toxic" and "poisonous" are synonymous. Animal poisons delivered subcutaneously (e.g., by sting or bite) are also ca... |
for him and personally crowned him emperor at Frankfurt. George II of Great Britain, who was also Elector of Hanover, also voted to install Charles as Emperor even though both Britain and Hanover were allied with Austria in the ongoing war. Charles VII was the second Wittelsbach emperor after Louis IV and the first Wit... | been defeated. He was unanimously elected "King of the Romans" on 24 January 1742 and became Holy Roman Emperor upon his coronation on 12 February 1742. His brother Klemens August of Bavaria, the archbishop and elector (Kurfürst) of Cologne, generally sided with the Austria Habsburg-Lorraine faction in the disputes ove... |
– Computational pipeline monitoring for liquids pipelines API 1149 – Pipeline variable uncertainties & their effects on leak detectability Where a pipeline containing passes under a road or railway, it is usually enclosed in a protective casing. This casing is vented to the atmosphere to prevent the build-up of flammab... | are other considerations limiting construction of ethanol pipelines. In the US minimal amounts of ethanol are transported by pipeline. Most ethanol is shipped by rail, the main alternatives being truck and barge. Delivering ethanol by pipeline is the most desirable option, but ethanol's affinity for water and solvent p... |
reaction. He went to Mass, confessed, and in no particular official capacity went to meet Cardinal Pole on his return to England in December 1554, again accompanying him to Calais in May 1555. He was elected to Parliament as knight of the shire for Lincolnshire in 1553 (probably), 1555 and 1559 and for Northamptonshire... | of Mary, Queen of Scots, proved that he was willing to take on responsibilities from which the Queen shrank. Generally he was in favour of more decided intervention on behalf of continental Protestants than Elizabeth would have liked, but it is not always easy to ascertain the advice he gave. He left endless memoranda ... |
Münster, Hildesheim, and Osnabrück, and a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. According to Jan Swafford, Clemens August did not owe his position of power to his "talent, intelligence or reason. In each of his exalted posts, Clemens August was splendidly brainless and incompetent, not in the least interested in governin... | shortly after his death, Pope Clement XIII rejected the succession of Clemens August's brother Cardinal John Theodore of Bavaria as Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Cologne since the pope entertained some doubt on John Theodore's "moral conduct". This was the end of the reign of the Wittelsbach in Cologne after 178 yea... |
balances the free-market supply outcome and the most socially desirable supply outcome. Project appraisal and evaluation The most sophisticated methods of project appraisal and evaluation have been developed and applied in the transport sector. The terms appraisal and evaluation are often confused in relation to the as... | allocating scarce roadway capacity to users. Capacity expansion is also a potential mechanism to deal with traffic congestion, but is often undesirable (particularly in urban areas) and sometimes has questionable benefits (see induced demand). William Vickrey, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for his work on "moral hazar... |
alienation, an individual's estrangement from society See also Alien Nation (disambiguation) Alienability (disambiguation) Alienation effect, an audience's inability to identify with a character in a performance, as an intended consequence of the actor's interpretation of the script Alienation of affection(s), a legal ... | character in a performance, as an intended consequence of the actor's interpretation of the script Alienation of affection(s), a legal term whereby a third party is blamed for the breakdown of a personal relationship Marx's theory of alienation, the separation of things that naturally belong together, or antagonism bet... |
it makes the transition to a superconducting state in the presence of a constant applied magnetic field, the magnetic flux is expelled during the transition. This effect cannot be explained by infinite conductivity, but only by the London equation. The placement and subsequent levitation of a magnet above an already su... | magnetic field, were cooled below their superconducting transition temperature, whereupon the samples cancelled nearly all interior magnetic fields. They detected this effect only indirectly because the magnetic flux is conserved by a superconductor: when the interior field decreases, the exterior field increases. The ... |
types. His approach held sway in English literature programs for several decades but lost favor during the ascendance of post-structuralism. For some theories of literature (especially certain kinds of formalism), the distinction between "literary" and other sorts of texts is of paramount importance. Other schools (par... | extrapolating thematic similarities between the two, named after a popular practice that came about in the 1970s Darwinian literary studies – situates literature in the context of evolution and natural selection Deconstruction – a strategy of "close" reading that elicits the ways that key terms and concepts may be para... |
studies as a form of hermeneutics: knowledge via interpretation to understand the meaning of human texts and symbolic expressionsincluding the interpretation of texts which themselves interpret other texts. In the British and American literary establishment, the New Criticism was more or less dominant until the late 19... | literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists. Whether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary theory, or conve... |
Wible, 2009) Family: Manidae (Gray, 1821) (pangolins) Subfamily: Maninae (Gray, 1821) (Asiatic pangolins) Genus: Manis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Asiatic pangolins) Manis crassicaudata (Gray, 1827) (Indian pangolin) Manis pentadactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chinese pangolin) †Manis hungarica (Kormos, 1934) †Manis lydekkeri (Dubois, ... | offspring, which they raise for about two years. Pangolins are threatened by poaching (for their meat and scales, which are used in traditional medicine) and heavy deforestation of their natural habitats, and they are the most trafficked mammals in the world. , there are eight species of pangolin whose conservation sta... |
another Decadent who, at the age of twenty-two, died even more tragically young than Peters, embarked on a series of Pierrot-themed short stories—"Pierrot Enamored of Glory" (1897), "Pierrot and His Cats" (1898), "The Nuptials of Pierrot" (1899), "Pierrot's Gesture" (1899), "The Caprices of Pierrot" (1900)—culminating,... | Baptiste: Charles Deburau, Paul Legrand, and their successors Deburau's son, Jean-Charles (or, as he preferred, "Charles" [1829–1873]), assumed Pierrot's blouse the year after his father's death, and he was praised for bringing Baptiste's agility to the role. (Nadar's photographs of him in various poses are some of the... |
first published short story, "Assisted Passage", a parody of 1950s Anglo-Australian emigration policies, appeared in the January 1953 edition of the magazine New Worlds. Further stories appeared in New Worlds during the next few years, but White's attempt to access the more lucrative American market by submitting stori... | by prophesies of nuclear doom, and his friends dared him to write the kind of story that they all liked to read. He said that getting published was fairly easy during the 1950s, as the World War II restrictions on paper were ended, and there were at least 12 science magazines in Britain and about 40 in the United State... |
ellipsoid. Any closed and oriented two-dimensional manifold can be smoothly embedded in . Any such embedding can be scaled by an arbitrarily small constant so as to become short, relative to any given Riemannian metric on the surface. It follows from the Nash–Kuiper theorem that there are continuously differentiable is... | example, the image of any smooth isometric hypersurface immersion of the round sphere must itself be a round sphere. By contrast, the Nash–Kuiper theorem ensures the existence of continuously differentiable isometric hypersurface immersions of the round sphere which are arbitrarily close to (for instance) a topological... |
was particularly active in the effort to suppress heresy and the spread of Protestant doctrines. Its students included Cardinal Richelieu, who studied there from 1606 to 1607. Richelieu became Proviseur, or administrator of the college on 29 August 1622. Between 1635 and 1642, Richelieu renovated the Sorbonne; he conso... | of Notre Dame de Paris, and the confessor and chaplain of King Louis IX (Saint Louis). At the time that he founded his college, the University of Paris had already been in existence for half a century, and already had thousands of students. Obtaining a higher degree in theology could take as long as twenty years, and t... |
of biographies in Italian of Dante and Petrarch. It was Bruni who used the phrase studia humanitatis, meaning the study of human endeavors, as distinct from those of theology and metaphysics, the source of the term humanists. As a humanist Bruni was essential in translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and... | the study of human endeavors, as distinct from those of theology and metaphysics, the source of the term humanists. As a humanist Bruni was essential in translating into Latin many works of Greek philosophy and history, such as Aristotle and Procopius. Bruni's translations of Aristotle's Politics and Nicomachean Ethics... |
the Calligram Foundation. In September 2016, PICA began utilizing this space as a box office, performance venue, and gallery for their 2016 TBA Festival while maintaining offices in downtown Portland. In November 2017, PICA's offices were relocated to the renovated Northeast Portland space. Leadership Founder Kristy Ed... | were relocated to the renovated Northeast Portland space. Leadership Founder Kristy Edmunds left PICA in 2005 to become artistic director for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She is now Artistic & Executive Director of the Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)... |
capable of suspending all operations in Windows when instructed. Because of its low-level capabilities, SoftICE is also popular as a software cracking tool. Microsoft offers two kernel-mode debuggers, WinDbg and KD, without charges. However, the full capabilities of WinDbg and KD are available only when two interlinked... | ptr [pIDT+2]; eax -> IDT add eax, 8 ; eax -> int 1 vector mov ebx, [eax] ; ebx == int 1 vector add eax, 16 ; eax -> int 3 vector mov eax, [eax] ; eax == int 3 vector and eax, 0FFFFh ; strip the selector and ebx, 0FFFFh ; part of it sub eax, ebx ; find displacement cmp eax, 10h jne HackedVector ; not equal, then chances... |
sender to pay for the postage, at a time when prepayment was optional, which led to the invention of the postage stamp, the Penny Black. Modern transport and technology The postal system was important in the development of modern transportation. Railways carried railway post offices. During the 20th century, air mail b... | began to be applied strictly to the letters themselves and the sack as the mailbag. In the 19th century, the British typically used mail to refer to letters being sent abroad (i.e. on a ship) and post to refer to letters for domestic delivery. The word Post is derived from Old French , which ultimately stems from the p... |
episode Riker clarifies that he grew up in Alaska. According to the Voyager episode "Death Wish" (in which Riker made a guest appearance), Riker's distant ancestors also lived in the United States: during the American Civil War, his ancestor Colonel Thaddeus Riker fought on the Union side, as an officer in the 102nd Ne... | welcomed with open arms. Will and Deanna are retired from Starfleet although Will describes his status as being on "active reserve." Riker makes another Picard appearance in the Season 1 finale, "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part II". In that episode, Riker has been reinstated to active duty. He is temporarily in command of the ... |
potentially explain the unique geological and geochemical properties of the Moon. A similar approach was taken by Canadian astronomer Alastair G. W. Cameron and American astronomer William R. Ward, who suggested that the Moon was formed by the tangential impact upon Earth of a body the size of Mars. It is hypothesised ... | might have supplied this excess momentum. Moon samples indicate that the Moon was once molten down to a substantial, but unknown, depth. This might have required more energy than predicted to be available from the accretion of a body of the Moon's size. An extremely energetic process, such as a giant impact, could prov... |
the Bungaloos" and several others between 1911 and 1917. Entertainer Al Jolson scatted through a few bars in the middle of his 1911 recording of "That Haunting Melody." Gene Greene's 1917 "From Here to Shanghai," which featured faux-Chinese scatting, and Gene Rodemich's 1924 "Scissor Grinder Joe" and "Some of These Day... | grabbed it in New Orleans. And found it was pretty good for an introduction of a song." Lomax: "What does scat mean?" Morton: "Scat doesn't mean anything but just something to give a song a flavor." Morton also once boasted, "Tony Jackson and myself were using scat for novelty back in 1906 and 1907 when Louis Armstrong... |
as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the band Marcy Playground. Early life Wozniak was born and raised in Minneapolis. He learned how to play the guitar at the age of 14. Career Wozniak's first solo effort was Zog BogBean – From the Marcy Playground recorded in his own home in 1990. In 2006 he recorded his s... | popular, rising to a then-record 15 weeks at number one on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart. In 2012, "Sex and Candy" was named the fourth-best one-hit wonder of the 1990s by Rolling Stone. "Sex and Candy" has been covered by Maroon 5, Prozak, Slothrust, and others. Wozniak continues to regularly write, record and tou... |
and Matthew Flinders in 1798. Extensive sealing took place at Sealer's Cove during the 19th Century, such that seals are no longer found there. Lobbying by the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and the Royal Society of Victoria (including Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas) led to the Government of Victoria temporarily re... | who will sometimes line up for over an hour before tickets can be bought so they can save a seat in the front row with a blanket. During summer, a ballot is held to allocate sites from Christmas until late January. Regardless of the time of year, all accommodation must be pre-booked.[3] Wildlife The Wilsons Promontory ... |
critique of political economy". The original project proved however too vast: of the historical part remains only an appendix of a few pages entitled "Note on the sources". In the Preface, Sraffa expresses his hope that the real criticism will be attempted "later, or by the author or someone younger and better equipped... | However, in general each input is employed by a certain number of industries that produce different goods. As for increasing returns and decreasing costs, Marshall himself notes that external economies can hardly be attributed clearly to a specific industry, but they are of considerable interest to groups, often of a l... |
National Park. Loi Bher Forest is situated along the Islamabad Highway, covering an area of . The highest monthly rainfall of was recorded during July 1995. Winters generally feature dense fog in the mornings and sunny afternoons. In the city, temperatures stay mild, with snowfall over the higher-elevation points on ne... | in Islamabad in the past 100 years and the highest rainfall in 24 hours as well. Cityscape Civic administration The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration, generally known as ICT Administration or Islamabad Administration, is the civil administration as well as main law and order agency of the Federal Capital... |
2011 and those of May 2015, Labour won 52 of the city's 54 seats, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats winning one seat each. In the 2019 local elections, the Labour Party gained the sole Conservative held ward of Knighton leaving Nigel Porter of the Liberal Democrats as the only opposition member on the City C... | immigrant and minority communities disperse to other places. The Leicester Multicultural Advisory Group is a forum, set up in 2001 by the editor of the Leicester Mercury, to co-ordinate community relations with members representing the council, police, schools, community and faith groups, and the media. Coronavirus The... |
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