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of Britain's reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies in the area. The Straits Settlements originally consisted of the four individual settlements of Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Dinding. Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands were added in 1886. The island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, was also inco... | establishment of the Straits Settlements followed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, by which the Malay archipelago was divided into a British zone in the north and a Dutch zone in the south. This resulted in the exchange of the British settlement of Bencoolen (on Sumatra) for the Dutch colony of Malacca and undisputed co... |
concluded their research in order to move on to the development of the Graphophone, they had devised some 50 different methods of modulating and demodulating light beams for optical telephony. Reception and adoption The telephone itself was still something of a novelty, and radio was decades away from commercialization... | transmitted a wireless voice telephone message from the roof of the Franklin School to the window of Bell's laboratory, some 213 meters (about 700 ft.) away. Bell believed the photophone was his most important invention. Of the 18 patents granted in Bell's name alone, and the 12 he shared with his collaborators, four w... |
Breda Royal Beer, generally known as simply Breda, a Dutch lager sold almost exclusively in the Channel Islands , various British warships NAC Breda, a football club based in Breda, Netherlands Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, aka Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie or simply Breda, an Italian industrial manufacturer , a | Breda may also refer to the following: Places Breda, Girona, a village in Catalonia, Spain Breda, Iowa, a small city in the United States Breda di Piave, a commune in the Treviso province, Italy Breda, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland Bréda, a small river in eastern France, tributary of the Isèr... |
1977), Senegalese former football player Daf Hobson (born 1951), English cinematographer Daf Palfrey (born 1973), Welsh director, producer and writer. Military United States Department of the Air Force Desert Air Force, World War II Royal Air Force unit Defectors from the French army to the ALN (), a faction within the... | and technology Decay-accelerating factor, a protein encoded by the CD55 gene Delayed Auditory Feedback, extending the time between speech and hearing Directed attention fatigue, a neuro-psychological phenomenon Dissolved air flotation, a water treatment process Dynamic amplification factor in structural dynamics Dual P... |
in Ringwood, Hampshire, of liver cancer in 1979, aged 69, survived by his wife, son and daughter. Commemoration In early 2013, Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society announced they would put a blue plaque on one of his two early homes in Derby (83 Darby Street, Normanton, or 29 Wiltshire Road, Chaddesden). Composit... | the signature sound of the Mantovani orchestra, much used in their arrangements of popular music. It was originally created to capture the essence of the echo properties of a building such as a cathedral, although it later became particularly associated with easy-listening music. Binge's catalogue includes hundreds of ... |
La Mola peninsula) and La Savina. Formentera comprises one municipality, also called Formentera, and has a population of 9,962 (as at 1 January 2010). Its land area is . It is subdivided into several civil parishes (parròquies), themselves subdivided into vendas (véndes in Catalan). North of Formentera is the island of... | Espalmador (Illa de s'Empalmador in Catalan), which is the second largest island of the municipality, and is itself surrounded by a few minor islets. Espalmador is a tombolo, separated from the main island of Formentera by a shallow sandbar, and during low tide, it is possible for one to wade between the two islands. T... |
problems of modern community planning; planning has to be highly skilled and strictly directed teamwork at all levels. Tapiola is a result of close teamwork in the fields of architecture, sociology, civil engineering, landscape gardening, domestic science, and youth welfare. The name of the garden city itself was chose... | middle was built a main shopping and cultural centre to meet the needs of 30,000 inhabitants (including those of surrounding districts) (Hertzen 1959). An important feature of the Tapiola and garden cities is the development of a self-contained community. This meant that as many jobs as possible had to be provided – as... |
Karlovy Vary. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized Czechoslovak film industry. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary. The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948. Since 1951, an international jury has evaluated the ... | – films from the former socialist bloc. Documentary Films - Competition – a competition divided into two parts: documentaries less than and longer than 30 minutes. Horizons and Another View – a selection of the most remarkable contemporary films. Imagina – films with an unconventional approach to narration and style, d... |
the mineral baths had obtained a reputation for having quasi-miraculous curing powers and attracted patients from the noble and wealthy classes. Government officials, such as Fouet and Chomel, began to classify the curing properties of the mineral baths. Vichy's thermal baths Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévig... | republican system was abolished, and the French State, with Philippe Pétain at its helm as Head of State, replaced it. Only 80 of the 600 members of Parliament voiced their opposition. Starting from this date, Vichy would be, for more than four years, the de facto capital of the French State. Paris was still the offici... |
toward highly regressive indirect taxes, which inordinately burdened the impoverished population, he wanted to change this to a system that depended more on direct (income and wealth) taxes. Finally, he wanted to do away with the provincial differentiation in the taxation, and construct a nationally standardized system... | provincial-repartition system of public finance was to be replaced by a system of national taxation. There was to be a five-man Uitvoerend Bewind as a collective Executive, with eight national Agenten (government ministers) doing the actual Administration work (Foreign Affairs, Police and Interior, Justice, Finance, Wa... |
fully or partially selective government high schools, including 17 fully selective high schools (some of which are co-educational and others provide a single-sex educational environment); 25 partially selective high schools (high schools with both selective and comprehensive classes); four selective agricultural high s... | of the country of origin, the government of the state or territory in which the school is located, or be operated as an independent school. International schools include those schools that have received international accreditation such as from the Council of International Schools, the International Baccalaureate Organi... |
the handler was mounted. Handler connections could also exist and be passed around independent of the filesystem, much like a pipe. One effect of this is that TTY-like 'devices' could be emulated without requiring a kernel-based pseudo terminal facility. An example of where a handler saved the day was in ISC's diskless... | is that the synchronous marshalling point of all the asynchronous activity itself could be asynchronous, ad infinitum. DNIX handled this with aplomb.) The asynchronous I/O facility obviated the need for Berkeley sockets select or SVR4's STREAMS poll mechanism, though there was a socket emulation library that preserved ... |
who spoke different dialects of English. Once he had analyzed the results of those tests, Read decided to revise Shavian to incorporate a number of changes to improve the alphabet and make it both easier and faster to write. He called the revised alphabet "Quikscript". In 1966 he published the Quikscript manual which s... | letters for sounds which do not exist in English. Origins and history George Bernard Shaw, the writer, critic and playwright, was a highly vocal critic of English spelling because it lacked a coherent system for representing the phonemes of English accurately. As a result, for years he wrote his literary works using Pi... |
of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery ... | terms infuriated Stowe, so the novel was written, read, and debated as a political abolitionist tract. Stowe drew inspiration for the Uncle Tom character from several sources. The best-known of these was Josiah Henson, an ex-slave whose autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Ca... |
with them, 61.3% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 27.1% were non-families. 20.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The avera... | 992 at the 2010 census. Garrett Park is home to Garrett Park Elementary School, located just outside the town proper. History Garrett Park was an early planned community, originally promoted by businessman Henry W. Copp, who purchased the land in 1886. Copp wanted to build a suburban development reminiscent of an Engli... |
beginning of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Howard rose in 1777 to the rank of colonel in the Maryland Line of the Continental Army, fighting in the Battle of White Plains in New York State in 1776 and in the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey in 1778. He was awarded a silver medal by the Confederation Congr... | at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina. Southern Army commander Maj.Gen. Nathanael Greene wrote that Howard was "as good an officer as the world affords. He has great ability and the best disposition to promote the service....He deserves a statue of gold." At the conclusion of the war, Colonel Howard was admi... |
district. Today, more than $150 million in private investing is underway or planned in new construction, infill development or historic renovation in the park area. The first phase of the park improvements, totaling nearly $11 million in construction, run from Court Street to just past Carroll Street. New elements to t... | Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839–1911) was born at "Richfields", the mansion home of his father. He became an important naval commander of the American fleet on board his flagship and heavy cruiser USS Baltimore along with Admiral William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba off the shores of the Spanish isl... |
of Carrollton, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Maryland: Carroll County, Arkansas Carroll County, Georgia Carroll County, Illinois Carroll County, Indiana Carroll County, Iowa Carroll County, Kentucky Carroll County, Maryland Carroll County, Mississippi Carroll County, Missouri Carroll | Carroll County is the name of thirteen counties in the U.S.A. All, except for the one in Tennessee, are named after Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Maryland: Carroll County, Arkansas Carroll County, Georgia Carroll County, Illinois Carroll County, Indiana Carroll Cou... |
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he considered anyone who did not accept the Church of Rome to be a Socinianist, and that was all he meant, and he abstained from further work on the encyclopaedia following his response to the critique. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1781. Music theories D'Alemb... | Theology was, however, "rather unsubstantial fodder" for d'Alembert. He entered law school for two years, and was nominated avocat in 1738. He was also interested in medicine and mathematics. Jean was first registered under the name "Daremberg", but later changed it to "d'Alembert". The name "d'Alembert" was proposed b... |
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widow, Licinia Eudoxia, and two of his daughters, Eudocia and Placidia. The Western Roman army gradually became increasingly reliant on barbarian mercenaries. After Valentinian's murder, the most powerful barbarian generals, such as Ricimer, became politically dominant, ruling through proclaiming puppet emperors. In th... | supported by memorial inscriptions from four roughly contemporary individuals; Aelia Nepotes, Aelia Nepos, another Julius Nepos and Nepotes, having been identified from Dalmatia. Nepos' uncle Marcellinus was a prominent late Roman general, having fought the Vandals in several campaigns and playing a notable role in mom... |
15 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 57) Aemilia Lepida, Roman noblewoman and fiancee of Claudius (d. AD 43) Lucius Vitellius the Elder, Roman consul and governor of Syria (d. AD 51) The birthdates of John the Baptist and Jesus are not generally known, but 5 BC is often assumed to be the date. The s... | or Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. In the Roman world, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year... |
common year starting on Sunday or Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus (or, | (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Friday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus (or, less frequently, year 748 Ab urbe condita... |
York Observer, and was a professor of film at Columbia University (where he earned an M.A. in English in 1998), teaching courses in international film history, American cinema, and Alfred Hitchcock until his retirement in 2011. Sarris was a co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics. Notes on the Auteur Theory ... | notable critics (Dave Kehr, Todd McCarthy, Gerald Perry) and filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Peter Bogdanovich, Curtis Hanson) alongside fans of Sarris's works. Film critics such as J. Hoberman, Kenneth Turan, Armond White, Michael Phillips, and A. O. Scott have cited him as an influence. His career is discus... |
Year 7 BC was a common year starting on Saturday or Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Thursday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. In the Roman world, it was known as the Year of the Consulshi... | are Roman Consuls. Augustus' second census of the Roman Empire reports a total of 4,233,000 citizens. Births Possible birthdate of John the Baptist, according to appearance of a very bright triple conjunction of the royal star, Jupiter and Saturn in the sign of Pisces (land in the West) in May until December of that ye... |
method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire King Maroboduus becomes ruler of the Marcomanni and fights against the Roman Empire's expansion in Bohemia. Arminius, son of a Cheruscan chieftain, is taken as a hostage to Rome, where he receives a military education. After 20 years, Emperor Augustus init... | Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Censorinus and Gaius Asinius (or, less frequently, year 746 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 8 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe f... |
The Ara Pacis ("Altar of Augustan Peace"), voted for by the Senate four years earlier, is dedicated. Nero Claudius Drusus begins a campaign against the Marcomanni, but dies soon after, due to a fall from his horse. Tiberius Claudius Nero continues the conquest of Germania. He is elevated by Emperor Augustus as his heir... | By place Roman Empire Pannonia is incorporated into the Roman Empire as part of Illyria. The Ara Pacis ("Altar of Augustan Peace"), voted for by the Senate four years earlier, is dedicated. Nero Claudius Drusus begins a campaign against the Marcomanni, but dies soon after, due to a fall from his horse. Tiberius Claudiu... |
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samizdat arose from a simple lack of resources and the necessity to be inconspicuous. In time, dissidents in the USSR began to admire these qualities for their own sake, the ragged appearance of samizdat contrasting sharply with the smooth, well-produced appearance of texts passed by the censor's office for publication... | Tamizdat refers to literature published abroad (там, tam, "there"), often from smuggled manuscripts. The Polish term for this phenomenon coined around 1980 was 'drugi obieg', or the 'second circuit' of publishing. Techniques All Soviet-produced typewriters and printing devices were officially registered, with their typ... |
-1, and 3 respectively, and , has coefficient parameters , , and respectively, assuming is the variable of the equation. The constant coefficient is the coefficient not attached to variables in an expression. For example, the constant coefficients of the expressions above are the real coefficient 3 and the parameter re... | In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of a polynomial, a series, or any expression; For example, in the first two terms have the coefficients 7 and −3, respectively. The third term 1.5 is a constant coefficient. The final term does not have any explicitly-written coefficient factor that ... |
Specific kinases are often named after their substrates. Protein kinases often have multiple substrates, and proteins can serve as substrates for more than one specific kinase. For this reason protein kinases are named based on what regulates their activity (i.e. Calmodulin-dependent protein kinases). Sometimes they ar... | are important signalling modulators in human cells, making kinases very important drug targets. Kinases are used extensively to transmit signals and regulate complex processes in cells. Phosphorylation of molecules can enhance or inhibit their activity and modulate their ability to interact with other molecules. The ad... |
software in place of much of the custom equipment. The sound card of a PC, with special processing software, acts as a modem. The computer screen provides the output. A small digital camera or digital photos provide the input. Modulation Like the similar radiofax mode, SSTV is an analog signal. SSTV uses frequency modu... | personal computer and special software in place of much of the custom equipment. The sound card of a PC, with special processing software, acts as a modem. The computer screen provides the output. A small digital camera or digital photos provide the input. Modulation Like the similar radiofax mode, SSTV is an analog si... |
first aircraft for pleasure flying, and on 25 August 1919, it inaugurated the first scheduled international airline service from London to Paris. One aircraft was sold to the River Plate Aviation Company in Argentina, to operate a cross-river service between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Meanwhile, the competing Vickers... | in July 1947. However, two crashed and the third was removed from service over safety concerns. The SNCASE Languedoc was the first French post-war airliner. Accommodating up to 44 seats, 40 aircraft were completed for Air France between October 1945 and April 1948. Air France withdrew the last Languedoc from its domest... |
He was awarded a faculty appointment at Caltech in 1976, where he has remained since. Zewail's key work has been as the pioneer of femtochemistry. He developed a method using a rapid laser technique (consisting of ultrashort laser flashes), which allows the description of reactions at the atomic level. It can be viewed... | speakers in Alexandria and Cairo as well as roughly 5,000 Armenian speakers. Literature Many Egyptians believed that when it came to a death of their Pharaoh, they would have to bury the Pharaoh deep inside the Pyramid. The ancient Egyptian literature dates back to the Old Kingdom, in the third millennium BC. Religious... |
and became king in 496 after all of Genseric's sons and his own brother, King Gunthamund, had died. Upon Gunthamund's death, he was one of only two living grandsons of Genseric, and inherited the throne in accordance with a law enacted by his grandfather, which bestowed the kingship on the eldest male member of a decea... | by his grandfather, which bestowed the kingship on the eldest male member of a deceased king's family. Theoderic the Great married his widowed sister Amalafrida to Thrasamund, providing a dowry consisting of the promontory of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and a retinue of a thousand elite troops and five thousand armed retainer... |
fourth and youngest son of Genseric, the founder of the Vandal kingdom in Africa. Because most of Genseric's immediate family was dead, his elder brothers having been murdered by Huneric, Gunthamund found himself as the eldest male member of the family when Huneric died on 23 December 484. In accordance with his grandf... | successor, he was proclaimed king. Gunthamund benefited throughout his reign from the fact that the Vandals' most powerful rivals, the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and the Byzantine Empire, were all heavily involved in wars. Although the Vandals' power had fallen off greatly since its zenith under Genseric, they enjoyed peac... |
forces, and the logistical problems of mounting and maintaining a major trans-Atlantic expedition. The strong fortifications in Cartagena and the able strategy of Spanish Commander Blas de Lezo were decisive in repelling the attack. Heavy losses on the British side were due in large part to virulent tropical diseases, ... | Spain to honour their lucrative contract, which gave British slave traders permission to sell slaves in Spanish America. The Spanish refer to this in their name for this war. British attacks on Spanish possessions in Central America resulted in high casualties, primarily from disease. After 1742, the war was subsumed b... |
areas, Wiltshire and Swindon, governed respectively by Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council. Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is noted for being the location of the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles (which together are a UNESCO Cultural and World Heritage sit... | also distinctive for the high proportion of its working-age population who are economically active (86.6% in 1999–2000) and its low unemployment rates. The gross domestic product (GDP) level in Wiltshire did not reach the UK average in 1998, and was only marginally above the rate for South West England. Government and ... |
errands. The types of vehicles include, but are not limited to, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), light-duty trucks, and any combination thereof, along with all the various van and car sizes, but would generally be taken to exclude human-powered vehicles such as bicycles. This term is used | (SOV) is a privately operated vehicle whose only occupant is the driver. The drivers of SOVs use their vehicles primarily for personal travel, daily commuting and for running errands. The types of vehicles include, but are not limited to, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), light-duty trucks, and any combination thereof, al... |
total estimated area of species occurrence is 361,800 ha (3,618 km² or 894,000 acres); 239,200 ha (2,392 km² or 591,000 acres) of timberland and 122,600 ha (1,226 km² or 303,000 acres) of woodland. Of this land 60% is privately owned, 31% is in National Forests, and 9% is on other public lands. It has greatly decreased... | long and wide. The deeply lobed leaves are typically long. While individual trees generally have a lifespan between 100 and 200 years, California black oak can live up to 500 years. The tree reproduces when its acorns sprout to form seedlings. It also reproduces vegetatively with new growth sprouting from the root crow... |
of the Instruch and Angrapa rivers, which unite to become the Pregolya river below Chernyakhovsk, the town had a population in 2017 of 36,423. History Chernyakhovsk was founded in 1336 by the Teutonic Knights on the site of a former Old Prussian fortification when Dietrich von Altenburg, the Grand Master of the Teutoni... | Municipal District as Chernyakhovskoye Urban Settlement. Population trends Military Chernyakhovsk is home to the Chernyakhovsk naval air facility. Coat of Arms Controversy On September 2019 the local court ruled that the coat of arms was illegal because it carries "elements of foreign culture." The local court alleged ... |
Mason, 1939. "Price and Production Policies of Large-Scale Enterprise", American Economic Review, 29(1, Supplement), pp. 61–74. • _, 1949. "The Current Status of the Monopoly Problem in the United States", 'Harvard Law Review, 62(8), pp. 1265–1285. • _, 1957. Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem, Harvard Uni... | Edward Elgar. Description and article list. 23 articles, dating from 1937 to 1987. Subareas The Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes are one way of representing the range of economics subjects and subareas. There, Industrial Organization, one of 20 primary categories, has 9 secondary categories, ea... |
had he not dealt with Solidarity internally. This question, as well as many other facts about Poland in the years 1945–1989, are presently under the investigation of government historians at the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN), whose publications reveal facts from the Communist-era archives. Additionally, there are nu... | war. He participated in the 1945 Soviet military takeover of Warsaw and the Battle of Berlin. By the time the war ended that year, he had gained the rank of lieutenant. He "further credited himself in Soviet eyes" by engaging in combat against the non-Communist Polish Home Army, from 1945 to 1947. After the end of the ... |
Second World War UK fire service Council of Nordic Trade Unions (Nordens Fackliga Samorganisation) National Forest System, created by the US Land Revision Act of 1891 National Forest System, division of the 1905 formed | of the 1905 formed United States Forest Service National Funding Scheme, UK charity fundraising organization Technology Network File System, a distributed file system protocol Number field sieve, an algorithm for factoring integers Other uses Need for Speed, a series |
Protocol development During the development of the ONC protocol (called SunRPC at the time), only Apollo's Network Computing System (NCS) offered comparable functionality. Two competing groups developed over fundamental differences in the two remote procedure call systems. Arguments focused on the method for data-encod... | also termed CIFS), Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), and OS/400 File Server file system (QFileSvr.400). SMB and NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) occur more often than NFS on systems running Microsoft Windows; AFP occurs more often than NFS in Apple Macintosh systems; and QFileSvr.400 occurs more ofte... |
for dry and edible fruits or seeds Nut (hardware), a fastener used with a bolt Nut (string instrument), device supporting and stabilizing strings near the headstock of a stringed instrument Nut or Nuts may also refer to: Places EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics The Nut (Tasmania), a volcanic plug Arts... | Universal Television Nuts TV, British television channel related to Nuts magazine Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Nuts (album) by Kevin Gilbert Nuts (magazine), UK men's weekly Nuts (play), 1979 play by Tom Topor "Nuts" a song by Brooke Candy and Lil Aaron Mechanical tools Nut (climbing), metal device for ... |
a legislative period, if the whole Presidium (i.e. the President and the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag) is altogether unable to perform its duties. As the Alterspräsidents opening speech usually draws a certain amount of public attention, the position has recently attracted controversy, when the Party of Democratic ... | over the opening of a new session and the election of the President of the European Parliament. Finland Germany Starting with the Frankfurter Nationalversammlung (Frankfurt Parliament) of 1848, all German parliaments had a father of the House, usually called Alterspräsident (President by right of age). This tradition w... |
same day, Washington and London agreed to accept the position of the Free French. The following day General Eisenhower gave his de facto blessing with a visit to the General in Paris. 1944–1946: Provisional Government of Liberated France Roosevelt insisted that an Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AM... | the fight in his Appeal of 18 June. He led the Free French Forces and later headed the French National Liberation Committee against the Axis. Despite frosty relations with the United States, he generally had Winston Churchill's support and emerged as the undisputed leader of Free France. He became head of the Provision... |
been bashful advocates of them. These steps include substituting markets in property rights, such as emission rights, for command and control ... The real problem lies deeper than any lack of reform proposals or failure to press them. It is our inability to understand their lack of political appeal.Public choice's appl... | rights, for command and control ... The real problem lies deeper than any lack of reform proposals or failure to press them. It is our inability to understand their lack of political appeal.Public choice's application to government regulation was developed by George Stigler (1971) and Sam Peltzman (1976). Special inter... |
the same species, though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. The skin of nectarines lacks the fuzz (fruit-skin trichomes) that peach skin has; a mutation in a single gene (MYB25) is thought to be responsible for the difference between the two. In 2018, China produced 62% of the world total of peaches an... | yellow, but white varieties also exist. The Koanga Institute lists varieties that ripen in the Southern Hemisphere in February and March. In 1909, Pacific Monthly mentioned peacherines in a news bulletin for California. Louise Pound, in 1920, claimed the term peacherine is an example of language stunt. Flat peaches Fla... |
chopped, granulated, and powder forms. Onion powder is a seasoning widely used when the fresh ingredient is not available. It is made from finely ground, dehydrated onions, mainly the pungent varieties of bulb onions, and has a strong odour. Being dehydrated, it has a long shelf life and is available in several varieti... | etymology The onion plant (Allium cepa), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. It was first officially described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. A number of synonyms have appeared in its taxonomic history: Allium cepa var. aggregatu... |
along the same river plain, it superseded the canal, which was filled in some areas. At the time of the canal's construction, Montgomery County was the only place where there was a break in the Appalachian Mountains. Called 'The Noses' because of canal construction, it became known as "the gateway to the West". In the ... | in the heart of the state's Mohawk Valley region. Foothills of the Catskill Mountains dot the southern part of the county, while foothills of the Adirondack Mountains dot the north. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 50,208 people, 20,073 households, and 13,131 families residing in the county. The popula... |
(family Orchidaceae) form above-ground storage organs called pseudobulbs, that superficially resemble bulbs. Nearly all plants that form true bulbs are monocotyledons, and include: Amaryllis, Crinum, Hippeastrum, Narcissus, and several other members of the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae. This includes onion, garlic, a... | cycle through vegetative and reproductive growth stages; the bulb grows to flowering size during the vegetative stage and the plant flowers during the reproductive stage. Certain environmental conditions are needed to trigger the transition from one stage to the next, such as the shift from a cold winter to spring. Onc... |
when the term "iaijutsu" originated. It is also unclear when techniques to draw katana from the scabbard were first practiced as a dedicated form of exercise. The Japanese sword has existed since the Nara period (710–794), where techniques to draw the sword have been practiced under other names than 'iaijutsu'. The ter... | excavations dated the oldest sword in Japan from at least as early as second century B.C. The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki (History of Japan), ancient texts on early Japanese history and myth that were compiled in the eighth century A.D., describe iron swords and swordsmanship that pre-date re... |
kata (featuring full contact strikes to the body in some styles and no body contact strikes permitted in others). Although kata training has always been the mainstay, in later periods, schools incorporated sparring under a variety of conditions, from using solid wooden bokutō to the use of a bamboo sword (shinai) and a... | Japanese sword. 20th and 21st century With the increasing interest in Japanese martial arts outside Japan during the 20th century, people in other countries started taking an interest in kenjutsu. Weapons One of the more common training weapons is the wooden sword (bokuto or bokken). For various reasons, many schools m... |
They were first IDF Special Forces unit formed from scratch, rather than modify a previously existing infantry oriented unit—such as with the Golani Brigade Special Reconnaissance Platoon. No other unit ever before received its orders directly from the IDF General Staff—the IDF High Command MATKAL, rather than from a l... | the state's borders—mainly establishing small unit maneuvers, activation and insertion tactics that are utilized even today. The new unit began a hard process of day and night training. Some of their exercises frequently took them across the border, as enemy engagement was seen as the best preparation. The recruits wen... |
their duty not only to be head of the large diocese, but also to help protect the kingdom against the Scottish threat from the north. The title survived the union of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 until 1836. The first prince-bishop was William Walcher who purchased the earldom and const... | by the bestowal of the princely title by Emperor Charles IV in 1356. Elsewhere England The Bishops of Durham were also territorial prince-bishops, with the extraordinary secular rank of earl palatine, for it was their duty not only to be head of the large diocese, but also to help protect the kingdom against the Scotti... |
Armada of 1779, but the operation never went ahead. France's initial military assistance to the American rebels was a disappointment, with defeats at Rhode Island and Savannah. In 1780, France sent Rochambeau and Grasse to help the Americans, along with large land and naval forces. The French expeditionary force arrive... | and Antoinette's lack of interest in conjugal activity. Joseph described the couple as "complete fumblers"; however, with his advice, Louis began to apply himself more effectively to his marital duties, and in the third week of March 1778 Marie Antoinette became pregnant. Eventually, the royal couple became the parents... |
method to be used on all condemned people regardless of class, consistent with the idea that the purpose of capital punishment was simply to end life rather than to inflict unnecessary pain. A committee formed under Antoine Louis, physician to the King and Secretary to the Academy of Surgery. Guillotin was also on the ... | All citizens condemned to die were from then on executed there, until the scaffold was moved on 21 August to the Place du Carrousel. The machine was deemed successful because it was considered a humane form of execution in contrast with the more cruel methods used in the pre-revolutionary Ancien Régime. In France, befo... |
Celebrating life's events Jewish law does not require the presence of a rabbi at a marriage, bar or bat mitzvah, circumcision, funeral, house of mourning, or unveiling of a monument at a cemetery. At the same time, Jewish law has prescribed requirements for each of these events and rituals. It therefore became customar... | Israel who received formal ordination (semicha), while the lesser title "Rav" was given to sages who taught in the Babylonian academies, as ordination could not be performed outside the Land of Israel. (However, another opinion holds that "Rabbi" and "Rav" are the same title, pronounced differently due to variations in... |
a number of other programmes. In April 1961 he made his second appearance on Desert Island Discs, this time unaccompanied by Murdoch. In October that year—three weeks after the fifth series of Beyond Our Ken began recording—Horne appeared as the anchorman on a new BBC television series, Let's Imagine, a discussion prog... | the Air Ministry in London, with the rank of wing commander. Continuing to broadcast on Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer, he also began to write sketches for the programme, and make broadcasts on other shows, including the Overseas Recorded Broadcasting Service (ORBS), to be transmitted to British forces in the Middle East. His work... |
he received the first Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. He died in 1982 of a heart attack while filming Yellowbeard in Mexico City. Early life Feldman was born on 8 July 1934 in East London, the son of Cecilia (née Crook) and Myer Feldman, a gown manufacturer, who was a Jewish immigrant from Kiev, Ukraine. He rec... | on the BBC series Showcase in April 1955. Later in the decade, Feldman worked on the scripts for Educating Archie in both its radio and television incarnations, with Ronald Chesney and later, Ronald Wolfe. In 1954, Feldman met Barry Took while both were working as performers, and with Took, he eventually formed an endu... |
which is well known for its New Mexico chile peppers. Since the city's founding, it has continued to be included on travel and trade routes including Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. History Petroglyphs carved into basalt in the western part of ... | the Viceroy Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th duke of Alburquerque, which is from a town in Spain. Albuquerque was a farming and shepherding community and strategically located trading and military outpost along the Camino Real, for the other already established for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area, such as... |
are forested and mountainous. The Tanimbar Islands are dry and hilly, while the Aru Islands are flat and swampy. Mount Binaiya (3027 m) on Seram is the highest mountain. A number of islands, such as Ternate (1721 m) and the TNS islands, are volcanoes emerging from the sea with villages sited around their coasts. There ... | volcanoes emerging from the sea with villages sited around their coasts. There have been over 70 serious volcanic eruptions in the last 500 years and earthquakes are common. Geology The geology of the Maluku Islands share much similar history, characteristics and processes with the neighbouring Nusa Tenggara region. Th... |
Maluku Islands, an archipelago that is part of Indonesia List of the Maluku Islands Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago North Maluku, a province of Indonesia comprising the northern | of the Maluku Islands Maluku (province), a province of Indonesia comprising the central and southern parts of the archipelago North Maluku, a province of Indonesia comprising the northern parts of the archipelago Republic |
provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. Historically, this lucrative part of the (Dutch) East Indies also included other nearby islands, | islands, including Sulawesi (Celebes). It occasionally also referred to the Zanzibar Archipelago including Pemba off East Africa. Spice Island, Island of Spice, or Spice Isle |
use of TM systems might have an effect on the quality of the texts translated. Its main effect is clearly related to the so-called "error propagation": if the translation for a particular segment is incorrect, it is in fact more likely that the incorrect translation will be reused the next time the same source text, or... | approach. Segments where no match is found will have to be translated by the translator manually. These newly translated segments are stored in the database where they can be used for future translations as well as repetitions of that segment in the current text. Translation memories work best on texts which are highly... |
recalled to Mogadishu to lead the troops guarding the burial of the deceased President. He quickly fell out of favour with the new regime's leaders and was subsequently detained along with Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Aidid was eventually released from prison six years afterwards to take part in the 1977–78 war against Ethio... | a gunshot wound in the ensuing battle. He later died from a heart attack on 2 August 1996, either during or after surgery to treat his injuries. Other officers allegedly targeted by Atto include General Talan. In its 2000 Country Report for Somalia, the U.S. Department of State asserted that the killing of Yusuf Tallan... |
in Austria: "The impression of jazz one receives in a foreign country is totally unlike the impression of such music heard in one's own country ... when I heard jazz played in Vienna, it was like hearing it for the first time." He also found that the distance from his native country helped him see the United States mor... | the Boston Symphony Orchestra and known as a champion of "new music". Koussevitsky would prove to be very influential in Copland's life, and was perhaps the second most important figure in his career after Boulanger. Beginning with the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924), Koussevitzky would perform more of Copland'... |
June 2017, by trespassing militants of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba. An attack on an Indian police convoy in Pulwama, in February 2019, resulted in the deaths of 40 police officers. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a Pakistan-backed militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Dissolution In August 2019, both hou... | Act, which contained provisions that dissolved the state and reorganised it into two union territories – Jammu and Kashmir in the west and Ladakh in the east, with effect from 31 October 2019. At the time of its dissolution, Jammu and Kashmir was the only state in India with a Muslim-majority population. History Establ... |
the mines of Sardinia, generally regarded as a death sentence. In light of his sentence, Pontian resigned, the first pope to do so, so as to allow an orderly transition in the Church of Rome, on 28 September 235. This date was recorded in the Liberian Catalogue and is notable for being the first full date of a papal re... | from 21 July 230 to 28 September 235. In 235, during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pontian was arrested and sent to the island of Sardinia. He abdicated to make the election of a new pope possible. When Pontian resigned on 28 September 235, he was the first pope to do so. It... |
smallpox in 1798, and after she recovered, he arranged for the rest of his family to be vaccinated. In 1803, the king, convinced of the benefits of the vaccine, ordered his personal physician Francis Xavier de Balmis, to deliver it to the Spanish dominions in North and South America. To maintain the vaccine in an avail... | of production proved to be lucrative and was taken advantage of by many entrepreneurs needing only calves and seed lymph from an infected cow to manufacture crude versions of the vaccine. W. F. Elgin of the National Vaccine Establishment presented his slightly refined technique to the Conference of State and Provincial... |
1945. His wife Jenny was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, presumably on 2 December 1943. Grimminger's secretary Tilly Hahn contributed her own funds to the cause, and acted as go-between for Grimminger and the group in Munich. She frequently carried supplies such as envelopes, paper, and an additi... | von Dumreicher, Dorothea Zill, Apelles Sobeczko, and Maria Leipelt formed the White Rose Hamburg resistance group against the National Socialist regime and distributed the group's leaflets. Historical and intellectual background Germany in 1942 White Rose survivor Jürgen Wittenstein described what it was like for ordin... |
the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus, in 268 or early 269 CE, between the army under the command of the Roman Emperor Claudius II and the Germanic tribes of the Alamanni and Juthungi. Background Ιn 268, the Alamanni, who had been making incursions into Roman territory sinc... | Background Ιn 268, the Alamanni, who had been making incursions into Roman territory since the reign of Marcus Aurelius, had broken through the Roman frontier at the Danube and crossed the Alps. The power struggles in Mediolanum due to Aureolus' revolt, the murder of Emperor Gallienus and the resulting confrontation be... |
Kállay and appointed a new government that would fully cooperate with Hitler and his plenipotentiary in Budapest, Edmund Veesenmayer. Knowing the likely alternative was a gauleiter who would treat Hungary in the same manner as the other countries under Nazi occupation, Horthy acquiesced and appointed his ambassador to ... | the regime of Adolf Hitler, and Horthy began to play a greater and more public role in navigating Hungary along this dangerous path. For Horthy, Hitler served as a bulwark against Soviet encroachment or invasion. Horthy was obsessed with the Communist threat. One American diplomat remarked that Horthy's anti-communist ... |
a solid rear axle that rigidly connected the rear wheels and rear wheel drive. The Model T school of automobile engineering proved popular because it was considered cheap to build, although it did pose dynamic defects as automobiles were becoming more capable, and resulted in heavier cars, which is why today cars are m... | downward brand extension to sell 40,000 of the newly designed Bi-Turbo models. The truck manufacturing company Berliet was sold to Renault. This new PSA venture was a financial success from 1976 to 1979. Citroën had two successful new designs in the market, the GS and CX. In the wake of the oil crisis, the brand also h... |
Arctic route. The expedition was accompanied by several naturalists (including Williams Speirs Bruce) and an artist, William Gordon Burn Murdoch. The publications (both scientific and popular) and exhibitions that resulted did much to reignite public interest in the Antarctic. The performance of the whaling ships was a... | the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. From 1927, Wilkins and pilot Carl Ben Eielson began exploring the Arctic by aircraft. On 15 April 1928, only a year after Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic, Wilkins and Eielson made a trans-Arctic crossing from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, arriving about 20 hours ... |
that the historian of ideas is tasked with identifying unit-ideas and with describing their historical emergence and development into new conceptual forms and combinations. The methodology of the unit-idea means To extract the basic idea from a work of philosophy and from a philosophical movement, the investigative pri... | in which the historian can find the unit-idea, which then is studied throughout the history of the particular idea. The British historian Quentin Skinner criticized Lovejoy’s unit-idea methodology as a “reification of doctrines” that has negative consequences. That the historian of ideas must be sensitive to the cultur... |
Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others. The broad term "ancient history" is not to be confused with "classical antiquity", the period that follows the ... | king of Kussara (a small city-state yet to be identified by archaeologists), conquered the neighbouring city of Neša (Kanesh). The main subject of these tablets is Pithana's son Anitta, who conquered several neighbouring cities, including Hattusa and Zalpuwa (Zalpa). Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser I (c. 1270 BC) ... |
unparalleled famine in the Leningrad region through disruption of utilities, water, energy and food supplies. This resulted in the deaths of about one million people. Famine also struck in Western Europe during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, the of 1944 killed approximately 30,000 people. Some other areas of... | found. Once those means had been exhausted, they would take to the road in search of food. They migrated to the cities where merchants from other areas would be more likely to sell their food, as cities had a stronger purchasing power than did rural areas. Cities also administered relief programs and bought grain for t... |
made it clear that Ballard was sure of the support of the Catholic League: Despite this assurance of this foreign support, Babington was hesitant, as he thought that no foreign invasion would succeed for as long as Elizabeth remained, to which Ballard answered that the plans of John Savage would take care of that. Afte... | the time Savage was going ahead with the plot, according to Conyers Read. Later that same year, Gifford reported to Charles Paget and Don Bernardino de Mendoza, and told them that English Catholics were prepared to mount an insurrection against Elizabeth, provided that they would be assured of foreign support. While it... |
, the power number, which is the dimensionless description of the stirrer. Note that the two dimensionless quantities are not unique and depend on which of the n = 5 variables are chosen as the k = 3 independent basis variables, which appear in both dimensionless quantities. The Reynolds number and power number fall fr... | been argued that quantities defined as ratios having equal dimensions in numerator and denominator are actually only unitless quantities and still have physical dimension defined as . For example, moisture content may be defined as a ratio of volumes (volumetric moisture, m3⋅m−3, dimension L⋅L) or as a ratio of masses ... |
power-number has different specifications according to the field of application. E.g., for stirrers the power number is defined as: with P: power ρ: fluid density n: rotational | (also known as Newton number) is a commonly used dimensionless number relating the resistance force to the inertia force. The power-number has different specifications according to the field |
to have been played by the French actor Mathieu Amalric with his older self played by Gérard Depardieu. However, the production company Pathé was not able to fund the project. Personal life Forman was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) to Anna Švábová Forman who ran a summer hotel. When young, he b... | director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave. Film scholars and Czechoslovak authorities saw his 1967 film The Firemen's Ball as a biting satire on Eastern European C... |
Orlando Antigua (born 1973), Dominican-American basketball player, and assistant basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Ships Four successive ships of the Royal Navy named , a turbo-electric liner of the United Fruit Company See also Antiguan (disambiguation) La Antigua (disambiguation) Anti... | Places Antigua, an island in the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda, the nation of which the island of Antigua is part Antigua Guatemala, a city in the central mountains of Guatemala Antigua, Fuerteventura, |
relate quite closely to philosophical disciplines (for example, social choice theory makes intense use of mathematical logic and also draws on moral philosophy, and so does the study of inequality and deprivation), but also because I found philosophical studies very rewarding on their own." His interest in philosophy, ... | to make informed economic decisions and be involved in fruitful political demonstrations etc. A comparison is also drawn between China and India to illustrate this interdependence of freedoms. Both countries were working towards developing their economies, China since 1979 and India since 1991. Welfare economics seeks ... |
lived in shelters for months. Estimated cost of rebuilding ranged from $100 million to $350 million. Not all damaged buildings were replaced, and in early 2013, only two very expensive hotels were operating in addition to a few cottages that were for rent. In fact, there were very few facilities for tourists. A report ... | southern US. Several slave rebellions took place on the island, with the most serious in 1834–1835. Britain emancipated slaves in most of its colonies in 1834, but that did not include Barbuda, so the island freed its own slaves at that time. For some years afterward, the freed slaves had little opportunity of survival... |
succeeds his brother Aspelta as king of Kush. 567 BC—Former pharaoh Apries invades Egypt with Babylonian help but is defeated by Saite pharaoh Amasis II (also known as Ahmose II). 25 May, 567 BC—Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. 566 BC—The first known Panathenaic Ga... | alignment. 561 BC/560 BC—Croesus becomes king of Lydia. 560 BC—Neriglissar succeeds Amel-Marduk as king of Babylon. 560 BC—An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed in the same year. c. 560 BC—The statue known as The Calf Bearer (Moschophoros), from the Ac... |
founded at Nemea (traditional date). 571 BC (25 November)—Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. 571 BC—Zhou Ling Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 570 BC—Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt. c. 570 BC—The François Vase, a volute krater with black fi... | 573 BC—The Nemean Games are founded at Nemea (traditional date). 571 BC (25 November)—Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. 571 BC—Zhou Ling Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 570 BC—Amasis II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt. c. 570 BC—The François Vase, a... |
the period 599 BC – 590 BC. Events and trends 598 BC—Jeconiah succeeds Jehoiakim as King of Judah. 598 BC—Kamarina is founded in Sicily (traditional date). March 16, 597 BC—Babylonians capture Jerusalem following a siege, replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king, and send many Jews (including Ezekiel) into Babylonian cap... | appoint the poet–statesman Solon (eponymous archon) to institute democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution, extending citizenship to males of many classes and establishing the Ecclesia. 593 BC—Exile of Sappho and Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene in Sicily. 592 BC—Early history of Sudan: An Egyptian army sacks ... |
last Assyrian king, disappears from history. 609 BC—Battle of Megiddo: King Josiah of Judah dies in battle against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II. Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoaha... | and capture Harran. Ashur-uballit, the last Assyrian king, disappears from history. 609 BC—Battle of Megiddo: King Josiah of Judah dies in battle against Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt, who is on his way north to aid the Assyrian state of Ashur-uballit II. Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly... |
the fifth King of Rome. 615 BC—Neo-Babylonian kingdom begin attacking Assyrian cities. 614 BC—Sack of Assur by the Medes and Babylonians. 613 BC—Death of Ji Renchen, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. 613 BC—King Zhuang of Chu ascends to the throne of Chu in China 612 BC—Ji Ban becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China... | and Susianians besiege and conquer Nineveh at the Battle of Nineveh. King Sin-shar-ishkun of Assyria is killed in the sack. 612 BC—Ashur-uballit II attempts to keep the Assyrian empire alive by establishing himself as king at Harran. 612 BC—Estimation: Babylon, capital of Babylonia becomes the largest city of the world... |
from their homelands in the southern islands of Polynesia. Specimens have been collected from the sea as far north as Norway (but it is not known where they entered the water). They have been found in the Caribbean and the Atlantic coasts of Africa and South America for less than 500 years (the Caribbean native inhabit... | using the words "cocho"/"cochi", as recorded in his journal after the first European crossing of the Pacific Ocean during the Magellan circumnavigation and meeting the inhabitants of what would become known as Guam and the Philippines. He explained how at Guam "they eat coconuts" ("mangiano cochi") and that the natives... |
Jin defeats Qin in the Battle of Xiao 626 BC—Nabopolassar revolts against Assyria, founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire. 625 BC—Medes and Babylonians assert their independence from Assyria and attack Nineveh (approximate date). c. 625 BC—Orientalizing period of vases ends in Ancient Greece. c. 623 BC—Sin-shar-ishkun succee... | 625 BC—Orientalizing period of vases ends in Ancient Greece. c. 623 BC—Sin-shar-ishkun succeeds his brother Assur-etel-ilani as king of Assyria. 622 or 621 BC - Draco makes the first law code for Ancient Greece. Significant people 628 BC—Death of Duke Wen of Jin, China. c. 628 BC—Commonly accepted |
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