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Washington County, Virginia Washington County, Wisconsin Former counties Washington County, South Dakota, a former county (1883–1943) that was divided in 1943 because of financial troubles in South Dakota Washington County, District of Columbia, a former county of the District of Columbia that was abolished in 1871 alo...
County, Tennessee Washington County, Texas Washington County, Utah Washington County, Vermont Washington County, Virginia Washington County, Wisconsin Former counties Washington County, South Dakota, a former county (1883–1943) that was divided in 1943 because of financial troubles in South Dakota Washington County, Di...
County, Alabama Greene County, Arkansas Greene County, Georgia Greene County, Illinois Greene County, Indiana Greene County, Iowa Greene County, Mississippi Greene County, Missouri - The most populated county with the name. Greene
United States, each named in honor of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene: Greene County, Alabama Greene County, Arkansas Greene County, Georgia Greene County, Illinois Greene County, Indiana Greene County,
Clay and a soldier in the Mexican–American War) Clay County, Kansas Clay County, Kentucky (named for Green Clay, cousin of Henry Clay, a member of the Kentucky state legislature) Clay County, Minnesota Clay County, Mississippi Clay County, Missouri Clay County, Nebraska Clay County, North Carolina Clay
are named for Henry Clay, U.S. Senator and statesman: Clay County, Alabama Clay County, Arkansas (named for John Clayton, and originally named Clayton County) Clay County, Florida Clay County, Georgia Clay County, Illinois Clay County, Indiana Clay County, Iowa (named for
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two counties in the United States
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Massachusetts, United States Suffolk County, New York, United States Suffolk, a county of England
of America: Sullivan County, Indiana Sullivan County, Missouri Sullivan County, New Hampshire Sullivan County,
the United States of America: Sullivan County, Indiana Sullivan County,
original Richmond County in Yorkshire, England in Australia: Richmond County, New South Wales, a cadastral division in Canada: Richmond County, Nova Scotia in the United States of America: Richmond
Richmond County in Yorkshire, England in Australia: Richmond County, New South Wales, a cadastral division in Canada: Richmond County, Nova Scotia in
of Philology 138.2: 267–303. Goold, G. P. 1961. "A Greek Professorial Circle at Rome." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 92: 168–192. Green, Steven J. 2014. Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Pre...
anonymous, the later give Manilius, Manlius, Mallius. The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome, suggesting that Manilius wrote the work during the 20s CE. According to the early 18th century classicist Richard Bentley, he was an Asiatic ...
also helped secure Canadian tax incentives. Filming The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane was filmed in Montreal and Knowlton, Quebec. Sheen described the set as relaxed and as encouraging creativity, and said Foster also built a friendship with his daughter Renée Estevez during shooting. A producer's desire for "sex...
horror genre. Martin Sheen said it was a horror film in some ways, but "not overt", with mystery and suspense elements. However, director Nicolas Gessner denied it was horror, characterizing it as "a teenage love story". Production Development Novelist Laird Koenig adapted the book. Originally, the script was intended ...
and Dumnonii. The Iron Age tribe in Dorset were the Durotriges, "water dwellers", whose main settlement is represented by Maiden Castle. Ptolemy stated that Bath was in the territory of the Belgae, but this may be a mistake. The Celtic gods were worshipped at the temple of Sulis at Bath and possibly the temple on Brean...
farming in the east of the region: church controlled estates such as Glastonbury Abbey and Wells became among the richest in England, while tin and silver mining was important in Devon and Cornwall; Stannary Parliaments with semi-autonomous powers were established. Farming prospered until it was severely hit by the Bla...
Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom Plymouth, Merthyr Tydfil, an electoral ward in Wales Plymouth (Penarth electoral ward), in Penarth, Wales Plymouth, Montserrat, abandoned city in the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat United States Plymouth, California Plymouth Colony, founded in North America by the Pilgrim Fa...
town Plymouth, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, a town Plymouth, Wisconsin, a city in Sheboygan County, located within the town of Plymouth Plymouth Township (disambiguation) Business and organisations Plymouth Albion R.F.C., English rugby union club based in Plymouth Plymouth Argyl...
old and of those years was married only nine. Bletchingdon was the home of Wren's brother-in-law William Holder, who was rector of the local church. Holder had been a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. An intellectual of considerable ability, he is said to have been the figure who introduced Wren to arithmetic and geo...
caught a chill which worsened over the next few days. On 25 February 1723 a servant who tried to awaken Wren from his nap found that he had died. Wren was laid to rest on 5 March 1723. His body was placed in the south-east corner of the crypt of St Paul's. There is a memorial to him in the crypt at St Paul's Cathedral....
the palace shows "the essence of Wolsey—the plain English churchman who nevertheless made his sovereign the arbiter of Europe and who built and furnished Hampton Court to show foreign embassies that Henry VIII's chief minister knew how to live as graciously as any cardinal in Rome." Whatever the concepts were, the arch...
first of the King's building works (in order to transform Hampton Court to a principal residence) was to build the vast kitchens. These were quadrupled in size in 1529, enabling the King to provide bouche of court for his entire court. The architecture of King Henry's new palace followed the design precedent set by Wol...
red mulberry, and elderberry, are poisonous when unripe, but are edible when ripe. History Berries have been valuable as a food source for humans since before the start of agriculture, and remain among the primary food sources of other primates. They were a seasonal staple for early hunter-gatherers for thousands of ye...
which is controlled in major commercial production by annual methyl bromide fumigation. Besides the number of years in production, soil compaction, the frequency of fumigation, and herbicide usages increase the appearance of black root rot in strawberries. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and many other berries...
O Israel, this is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt". Moses smashes the two tablets and grinds the golden calf into dust, then throws the dust into a stream of water flowing out of Mount Sinai, and forces the Israelites to drink from it. Moses ascends Mount Sinai for a second time and Yahweh passes befo...
let the Hebrews go to say to Pharaoh "Thus says Yahweh: Israel is my son, my first-born and I have said to you: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay your son, your first-born". Moses returns to Egypt and tells Pharaoh that he must let the Hebrew slaves go free. Ph...
in boys affected with the childhood cerebral form of ALD include emotional instability, hyperactivity and disruptive behavior at school. Older patients affected with the cerebral form will present with similar symptoms. Untreated, cerebral ALD is characterized by progressive demyelination leading to a vegetative state ...
is the most severe form. It is characterized by normal development in early childhood, followed by rapid degeneration to a vegetative state. The other forms of ALD vary in terms of onset and clinical severity, ranging from adrenal insufficiency to progressive paraparesis in early adulthood (this form of the disease is ...
(chess), a chess strategy which advocates controlling the center of the
advocates controlling the center of the board with distant pieces rather than pawns Hypermodernism (art), a cultural,
or, in rare cases, both sides of the face. Other symptoms include drooping of the eyelid, a change in taste, and pain around the ear. Typically symptoms come on over 48 hours. Bell's palsy can trigger an increased sensitivity to sound known as hyperacusis. The cause of Bell's palsy is unknown. Risk factors include diab...
the nerve in the narrow bone canal is responsible for nerve damage. Demyelination may not even be directly caused by the virus, but by an unknown immune response. Diagnosis Bell's palsy is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning it is diagnosed by elimination of other reasonable possibilities. By definition, no specific caus...
years are general medical training. Experienced OB-GYN professionals can seek certifications in sub-specialty areas, including maternal and fetal medicine. See Fellowship (medicine). United Kingdom All doctors must first complete medical school and obtain a MBBS or equivalent certification. This portion typically takes...
professionals can seek certifications in sub-specialty areas, including maternal and fetal medicine. See Fellowship (medicine). United Kingdom All doctors must first complete medical school and obtain a MBBS or equivalent certification. This portion typically takes five years. Following this, they are eligible for prov...
foetus has been significantly influenced by other factors. Ultrasound is also used for detecting congenital anomalies (or other foetal anomalies) and determining the biophysical profiles (BPP), which are generally easier to detect in the second trimester when the foetal structures are larger and more developed. Special...
confers an increased rate of foetal death in utero and spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), as well as of neonatal lupus. Thyroid disease in pregnancy can, if uncorrected, cause adverse effects on foetal and maternal well-being. The deleterious effects of thyroid dysfunction can also extend beyond pregnancy and delivery...
in all of medicine, the main tools of diagnosis are clinical history and examination. Gynaecological examination is quite intimate, more so than a routine physical exam. It also requires unique instrumentation such as the speculum. The speculum consists of two hinged blades of concave metal or plastic which are used to...
a staging operation for ovarian cancer. Cervical Excision Procedures (including cryosurgery) – removal of the surface of the cervix containing pre-cancerous cells which have been previously identified on Pap smear. Specialist training In the UK the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, based in London, enc...
March 2003, Selig acknowledged that he was considering Rose's application, leading to speculation that Rose's return might be imminent. Ultimately, however, Selig took no action. Representatives for Rose applied in 2015 for reinstatement with Selig's successor, Rob Manfred. However, on December 15, 2015, Manfred reject...
the Commissioner had prejudged the case and could not provide a fair hearing. The Court of Common Pleas issued a temporary restraining order to delay the hearing, but Giamatti sought to remove the case to the federal United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The Southern District of Ohio granted G...
injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders. It further encompasses an understanding of the development of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical systems and the skills necessary for this development. The field of emergency medicine enc...
There are a variety of international models for emergency medicine training. There are two different models among those with well-developed training programs: a "specialist" model or "a multidisciplinary model". Additionally, in some countries, the emergency medicine specialist rides in the ambulance. For example, in F...
interventions to treat the patient at the scene of the incident without doing further harm. Care in transit -– the emergency medical service load the patient in to suitable transport and continue to provide appropriate medical care throughout the journey Transfer to definitive care – the patient is handed over to an ap...
or 'standing orders' (procedures for treatment). This may also include on-line medical control, in which the physician is contacted to provide advice and authorization for various medical interventions. In some cases, such as in the UK, South Africa and Australia, a paramedic may be an autonomous health care profession...
the muscles and the passage of them along nerves in the limbs. Most nerve-muscle disorders that occur fall into one of two types of categories, morphologic or physiologic, which can be seen within the motor unit. These disorders can either be acute, or have a slow developing nature. An online tool that allows the inter...
of the muscles and the passage of them along nerves in the limbs. Most nerve-muscle disorders that occur fall into one of two types of categories, morphologic or physiologic, which can be seen within the motor unit. These disorders can either be acute, or have a slow developing nature. An online tool that allows the in...
(...) reason". Emunah can be enhanced through wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and learning of sacred Jewish writings. But Emunah is not simply based on reason, nor can it be understood as the opposite of, or standing in contrast to, reason. There are a number of basic principles that were formulated by medieval rabbi...
limited way, every individual—is 'chosen' or destined for some distinct purpose in advancing the designs of Providence. Only, some fulfill their mission and others do not. Maybe the Greeks were chosen for their unique contributions to art and philosophy, the Romans for their pioneering services in law and government, t...
(where Hakka is the native language of a significant minority of the island's residents) is a center for the study and preservation of the language. Pronunciation differences exist between the Taiwanese Hakka dialects and Mainland China's Hakka dialects; even in Taiwan, two major local varieties of Hakka exist. The Mei...
in Guangdong. Etymology The name of the Hakka people who are the predominant original native speakers of the variety literally means "guest families" or "guest people": Hak (Mandarin: ) means "guest", and ka (Mandarin: ) means "family". Among themselves, Hakka people variously called their language Hak-ka-fa (-va), Hak...
food is one of the most common ways to consume deep-fried food in North America. Novelty deep-fried foods are popular today in American fairs, especially those in the American South. Hundreds of items are served at these fairs. Some of them include deep-fried beer, butter, and bubblegum. Additionally, deep frying can b...
the United Kingdom, where many events and records are held relating to deep frying food and non-edible items. History The English expression deep-fried is attested from the early 20th century. Deep-fried dough known as Zalabiyeh was eaten as early as the late 2nd millennium BC in Canaan. Recipes for the dessert also ex...
and other parts of the world. Many foods are fried with hot salt or sand, even in common households. Hot salt frying In Pakistan, hot salt frying is mostly used by street vendors to cook corn. Rock salt is preheated in a wok. Either the whole corn or individual kernels are buried in the salt and occasionally turned. Co...
common cooking technique for street-side food vendors in China and India to cook chestnuts and peanuts. A large wok is filled with sand, which turns black from accumulating carbonized particles from the food items being fried, and heated to high temperature. Nuts are buried in the hot sand and occasionally turned with ...
However, the oil should always be hot enough to ensure that the moisture in the food can escape in the form of steam; the force of the steam escaping keeps the oil from soaking into the food. The same amount of oil is used as for sautéing – just enough to glaze the pan. Equipment Generally, a shallower cooking vessel i...
reduce spatter. A denser cooking vessel is better than a less dense pan because the added mass will improve temperature regulation. An electric skillet can be used analogously to an electric deep fryer, and many of these devices have a thermostat to keep the liquid (in this case, oil) at the desired temperature. Breadi...
which facilitates fast cooking. The primary mode of heat transfer during sautéing is conduction between the pan and the food being cooked. Food that is sautéed is browned while preserving its texture, moisture, and flavor. If meat, chicken, or fish is sautéed, the sauté is often finished by deglazing the pan's residue ...
amount of oil or fat in a shallow pan over relatively high heat. Various sauté methods exist. Description Ingredients for sautéing are usually cut into small pieces or thinly sliced to provide a large surface area, which facilitates fast cooking. The primary mode of heat transfer during sautéing is conduction between t...
of heterocyclic amines, benzopyrenes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are carcinogens. Marination may reduce the formation of these compounds. Grilling is often presented as a healthy alternative to cooking with oils, although the fat and juices lost by grilling can contribute to drier food. Regional variat...
tteok-galbi (grilled short rib patties), and makchang-gui (beef abomasum). Philippines In the Philippines, pork or chicken inihaw (similar in taste to yakitori), inasal, isaw, and satti are sold commonly as street food or in specialist restaurants. Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand In Malaysia, Singapore, In...
and boiling, in that it uses a relatively lower temperature (about ). This temperature range makes it particularly suitable for delicate food, such as eggs, poultry, fish and fruit, which might easily fall apart or dry out using other cooking methods. Poaching is often considered a healthy method of cooking because it ...
surface can be skimmed if necessary throughout cooking. A tight-fitting lid may be helpful for bringing the liquid up to temperature. Poaching liquid The poaching liquid traditionally uses a stock, broth or court bouillon which can consist of an acid (wine, lemon juice) and aromatics, such as herbs and/or spices, (for ...
symbolically with the power of the nobility. Between 1830 and 1848 poaching and poaching-related deaths increased in Bavaria. The German revolutions of 1848–49 were interpreted as a general permission for poaching in Bavaria. The reform of hunting law in 1849 restricted legal hunting to rich landowners and middle class...
major reasons of poaching is for consumption and sale of bushmeat. Usually, bushmeat is considered a subset of poaching due to the hunting of animals regardless of the laws that conserve certain species of animals. Many families consume more bushmeat if there are no alternative sources of protein available such as fish...
or "jiggler" valve, which releases pressure during operation. Some people consider them loud because the valve rattles as excess steam is released. Older pressure cookers typically offered only one pressure level, but from the 1960s onwards some allow the operator to change the weight of the valve, thus changing the pr...
and autoclaves. It is very simple to produce, and it can seal with simple and inexpensive gaskets. The internally fitted lid design employs an oval lid that is placed inside and presses outward; the user inserts the lid at an angle, then turns the lid to align it with the pot opening on top because the lid is larger th...
prepared in this way are described as "roasted", e.g., roasted chicken or roasted squash. Methods For roasting, the food may be placed on a rack, in a roasting pan or, to ensure even application of heat, may be rotated on a spit or rotisserie. If a pan is used, the juice can be retained for use in gravy, Yorkshire pudd...
Any piece of meat, especially red meat, that has been cooked in this fashion is called a roast. Meats and vegetables prepared in this way are described as "roasted", e.g., roasted chicken or roasted squash. Methods For roasting, the food may be placed on a rack, in a roasting pan or, to ensure even application of heat,...
the sperm is always deactivated. In humans with euploidy, a genotypical female (46, XX karyotype) has one Barr body per somatic cell nucleus, while a genotypical male (46, XY) has none. The Barr body can be seen in the interphase nucleus as a darkly staining small mass in contact with the nucleus membrane. Barr bodies ...
body, and people with a 47, XXX karyotype have two Barr bodies. Mechanism Someone with two X chromosomes (such as most human females) has only one Barr body per somatic cell, while someone with one X chromosome (such as most human males) has none. Mammalian X-chromosome inactivation is initiated from the X inactivation...
can be eaten as is without any further preparation. Hot smoking usually occurs within the range of . When food is smoked within this temperature range, foods are fully cooked, moist, and flavorful. If the smoker is allowed to get hotter than , the foods can shrink excessively, buckle, or even split. Smoking at high tem...
Smokehouse temperatures for cold smoking are typically done between . In this temperature range, foods take on a smoked flavor, but remain relatively moist. Cold smoking does not cook foods, and as such, meats should be fully cured before cold smoking. Cold smoking can be used as a flavor enhancer for items such as che...
a structure to cook food by steam vapor produced in a separate water container, providing a similar result to being cooked on stove. There are also specialized steam ovens available. Steamed foods In Japan, glutinous rice is steamed to prepare mochi rice cakes. Traditional Japanese sweets or wagashi making involves ste...
which is capable of pressure steaming or submerging. Such cooking is most often done by placing the food into a food steamer, typically a circular container made of metal or wood and bamboo. The steamer usually has a lid that is placed on the top of the container during cooking to allow the steam to cook through the fo...
or dessert soups, which contain medicinal herbs can be cooked using double steaming. Cantonese cuisine is famous for its slow-cooked soup. One famous dish of this kind is called the winter melon urn (冬瓜盅). It is prepared by emptying the inside of a winter melon to make an urn. The outside of the winter melon is often c...
boiling, is a Chinese cooking technique to prepare delicate food such as bird's nest soup and shark fin soup. The food is covered with water and put in a covered ceramic jar and the jar is then steamed for several hours. This technique ensures there is no loss of liquid or moisture (its essences) from the food being co...
weak to fracture a solid moon of that size, unless Phobos is a rubble pile surrounded by a layer of powdery regolith about thick. Stress fractures calculated for this model line up with the grooves on Phobos. The model is supported with the discovery that some of the grooves are younger than others, implying that the p...
low gravity. It is one of the least reflective bodies in the Solar System, with an albedo of about 0.071. Infrared spectra show that it has carbon-rich material found in carbonaceous chondrites. Instead, its composition shows similarities to that of Mars' surface. Phobos's density is too low to be solid rock, and it is...
in some of the others. To impart wok hei the traditional way, the food is cooked in a seasoned wok over a high flame while being stirred and tossed quickly. The distinct taste of wok hei is partially imbued into the metal of the wok itself from previous cooking sessions and brought out again when cooking over high heat...
by dry seasonings such as ginger, garlic, scallions, or shallots. The seasonings are tossed with a spatula until they are fragrant, then other ingredients are added, beginning with the ones taking the longest to cook, such as meat or tofu. When the meat and vegetables are nearly cooked, combinations of soy sauce, vineg...
bankruptcy court for $25 million, in March 2001. This erased over $4 billion in debt. Iridium service was restarted in 2001 by the newly founded Iridium Satellite LLC, which was owned by a group of private investors. On February 10, 2009, Iridium 33 collided with a defunct Russian satellite, Kosmos 2251, over Siberia. ...
The initial commercial failure of Iridium had a damping effect on other proposed commercial satellite constellation projects, including Teledesic. Other schemes (Orbcomm, ICO Global Communications, and Globalstar) followed Iridium into bankruptcy protection, while a number of other proposed schemes were never construct...
(2011–13), Vincent O'Sullivan (2013–15), C. K. Stead (2015–2017), Selina Tusitala Marsh (2017-2019), and David Eggleton (2019-2021). Nigeria Poets Laureate of Nigeria include: Obo Aba Hisanjani. North Korea Beginning around 1994, North Korea had 6 active poets laureate who worked in the epic genre. Epic poetry was the ...
in the early 1480s and was advanced to the degree of "poet laureate" in 1488, when he joined the court of King Henry VII to tutor the future Henry VIII. The title of laureate was also conferred on him by the University of Louvain in 1492 and by the University of Cambridge in 1492–3. He soon became famous for his rhetor...
particular search at 11:33 a.m. was for information about Rock Creek Park in The Washington Post "Entertainment Guide", then at 11:34 she clicked a link to bring up a map of the park. Detectives later theorized that she might have met someone at the Pierce-Klingle Mansion which houses the park headquarters. On July 25,...
that Guandique bound and gagged Levy after attacking her, leaving her to die of dehydration or exposure in the park. Defense attorney Santha Sonenberg countered with the lack of any DNA evidence connecting Guandique to the crime scene. Calling the prosecution's case "fiction", Sonenberg suggested that Levy had been mur...
out and Archduke Charles was also proclaimed king of Spain, as Charles III, in opposition to Philip V. He was proclaimed in Vienna, and also in Madrid in the years 1706 and 1710. Charles renounced his claims to the Spanish throne in the Treaty of Rastatt of 1714, but was allowed the continued use of the styles of a Spa...
i.e. after King Ferdinand (II of Aragon and V of Castile jure uxoris as husband of Queen of Castille Isabella I), the next Ferdinand was numbered VI. Likewise, Alfonso XII takes his number following that of Alfonso XI of Castile rather than that of Alfonso V of Aragon, the prior Spanish monarchs with that name. In the ...
and the good is rare. A similar adage also appears in Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed, published in 1890. Four-fifths of everybody's work must be bad. But the remnant is worth the trouble for its own sake. A 1946 essay by Orwell, Confessions of a Book Reviewer asserts about books In much more than nine cases ou...
(or Sturgeon's revelation) is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap." The adage was coined by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic. The adage was inspired by Sturgeon's observation that while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, the majority of e...
it getting picked up. Hollywood has shifted writers onto and off projects since its earliest days, and the assignment of credits is not always straightforward or complete, which poses a problem for film study. In his book Talking Pictures, Richard Corliss discussed the historian's dilemma: "A writer may be given screen...
as "exclusive" assignments or "pitched" assignments. Screenwriters who often pitch new projects, whether original or an adaptation, often do not have to worry about competing for assignments and are often more successful. When word is put out about a project a film studio, production company, or producer wants done, th...
development of the optical printer. Essentially, an optical printer is a projector aiming into a camera lens, and it was developed to make copies of films for distribution. Until Linwood G. Dunn refined the design and use of the optical printer, effects shots were accomplished as in-camera effects. Dunn demonstrating t...
or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might be used to place actors or sets against a different background. Since the 1990s, computer-generated imagery (CGI) has come to the forefront of special effects technologies. It gives filmmakers greater control, and allows ma...
groups or well known in other musical professions. The term can sometimes also be applied to a group that has no specific preferred genre. The term is usually used in the context of rock and pop music, but it has occasionally been applied to other musical genres. For example, The Three Tenors—composed of opera supersta...
a musical group whose members are already successful as solo artists or as part of other successful groups or well known in other musical professions. The term can sometimes also be applied to a group that has no specific preferred genre. The term is usually used in the context of rock and pop music, but it has occasio...
raising political consciousness. Although offering little guidance for how to set up these councils, Gaddafi claimed that they would offer a form of direct political participation that was more democratic than a traditional party-based representative system. He hoped that the councils would mobilize the people behind t...
power. It is probable that without the NATO air strikes supporting the rebels, they would not have been able to advance west and Gaddafi's forces would have ultimately retaken control of eastern Libya. Capture and death: September–October 2011 Only a few towns in western Libya such as Bani Walid, Sebha, and Sirte remai...
h is Planck's constant, and c is the speed of light in a vacuum. The radiance from a specified angle of view (watts per square metre per steradian) is given by A body that does not absorb all incident radiation (sometimes known as a grey body) emits less total energy than a black body and is characterized by an emissiv...
to exceed the Stefan–Boltzmann law. History In 1864, John Tyndall presented measurements of the infrared emission by a platinum filament and the corresponding color of the filament. The proportionality to the fourth power of the absolute temperature was deduced by Josef Stefan (1835–1893) in 1879 on the basis of Tyndal...
Stefan's student Ludwig Boltzmann and hence is known as Stefan–Boltzmann law. Boltzmann treated a heat engine with light as a working matter. This law is the only physical law of nature named after a Slovene physicist. Today, the law is derived from Planck's law of black-body radiation: With his law, Stefan determined ...
inspired him to be sympathetic toward Slovene literary production. After having graduated top of his class in high school, he briefly considered joining the Benedictine Order, but his great interest in physics prevailed. He left for Vienna in 1853 to study mathematics and physics. His professor of physics in the gymnas...
website introduced its mascot "Spidey" on September 1, 1995. Starting in April 1996, WebCrawler also included the human-edited internet guide GNN Select, which was also under AOL ownership. On April 1, 1997, Excite acquired WebCrawler from AOL for $12.3 million. WebCrawler received a redesign on June 16, 1997, adding W...
from AOL for $12.3 million. WebCrawler received a redesign on June 16, 1997, adding WebCrawler Shortcuts, which suggested alternative links to material related to a search topic. WebCrawler was maintained by Excite as a separate search engine with its own database until 2001, when it started using Excite's own database...
the combined mapping of port and IP address. A private address on the inside of the NAT is mapped to an external public address. Port address translation (PAT) resolves conflicts that arise when multiple hosts happen to use the same source port number to establish different external connections at the same time. Teleph...
IP address. The IP address/protocol/port number triple defines an association with a network socket. For publicly accessible services such as web and mail servers the port number is important. For example, port 80 connects through a socket to the web server software and port 25 to a mail server's SMTP daemon. The IP ad...
have security equivalent to a 128 bit symmetric cipher.” Key generation To prevent a key from being guessed, keys need to be generated randomly and contain sufficient entropy. The problem of how to safely generate random keys is difficult and has been addressed in many ways by various cryptographic systems. A key can d...
used in both schemes. The Diffie–Hellman key exchange and Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) are the most two widely used key exchange algorithms. In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman constructed the Diffie–Hellman algorithm, which was the first public key algorithm. The Diffie–Hellman key exchange protocol allows key...
to go between the two keys. The keys, in practice, represent a shared secret between two or more parties that can be used to maintain a private information link. The requirement that both parties have access to the secret key is one of the main drawbacks of symmetric-key encryption, in comparison to public-key encrypti...
Kuznyechik, RC4, DES, 3DES, Skipjack, Safer, and IDEA. Use as a cryptographic primitive Symmetric ciphers are commonly used to achieve other cryptographic primitives than just encryption. Encrypting a message does not guarantee that it will remain unchanged while encrypted. Hence, often a message authentication code is...
was renamed again in July 2006, and today it is officially called in Tajik Qullai Abuali ibni Sino (қуллаи Абӯалӣ ибни Сино, Ibn Sina Peak or, alternatively, Avicenna Peak) after Abu Ali ibn Sina (Avicenna). In Kyrgyzstan, the peak is still officially called Lenin Chokusu (Ленин Чокусу, Lenin Peak). However, in October...
Kyrgyz city of Osh, a day's drive north of the border. Another suggested local name, Pik Kaman ("wild pig", "boar") probably belongs to an officially unnamed peak west of Lenin Peak. Climbing history and routes Initial exploration of this part of Central Asia occurred in the period 1774–82. Arguably the first recorded ...
directory was now located between the FAT and the data area for his implementation of FAT12. Paterson also increased the nine-character (6.3) filename length limit to eleven characters to support CP/M-style 8.3 filenames and File Control Blocks. The format used in Microsoft Standalone Disk BASIC's 8-bit file system pre...
data storage areas associated with a file, the File Allocation Table (FAT). The FAT is statically allocated at the time of formatting. The table is a linked list of entries for each cluster, a contiguous area of disk storage. Each entry contains either the number of the next cluster in the file, or else a marker indica...
in the detective thriller Warning Shot (1967); in the UK she was the leading lady in the spy caper Subterfuge (1968); and made a cameo appearance in the comedy If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969). In the US, Collins starred opposite her husband in Newley's autobiographical musical Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Fo...
on American television during the 1960s included playing the villainous Siren in Batman, Run For Your Life, The Virginian, Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and Star Trek; in the latter, she played Edith Keeler in the episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". 1970s In the 1970s, Collins remained busy on te...
Laureates who taught at the University of Vienna include Robert Bárány, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Hans Fischer, Karl Landsteiner, Erwin Schrödinger, Victor Franz Hess, Otto Loewi, Konrad Lorenz and Friedrich Hayek. The University of Vienna was the cradle of the Austrian School of economics. The founders of this school who...
to a sharp decline, with only 30 students enrolled at the lowest point. For King Ferdinand I, this meant that the university should be tied to the church to an even stronger degree, and in 1551 he installed the Jesuit Order there. With the enacting of the Sanctio Pragmatica edict by emperor Ferdinand II in 1623, the Je...
the emerging Protestant movement in Europe, any dialogue with which he opposed (the inquisition itself had been first instituted by Pope Innocent III who first regulated inquisitional procedure in the 13th century). Carafa was elected pope in 1555 through the influence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in the face of oppo...
he had him imprisoned. In order to prevent Morone from succeeding him and imposing what he believed to be his Protestant beliefs on the Church, Pope Paul IV codified the Catholic Law excluding heretics and non-Catholics from receiving or legitimately becoming pope, in the bull Cum ex apostolatus officio. Paul IV was ri...
Russian SFSR in 1990 following the restoration of the republican Council of Ministers and the Supreme Soviet. It continued in its functions when Russia gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. the Ministry controls: the Politsiya (formerly Militsiya) the General Administration for Traffic Safety the Federal D...
group of militsiya officers stationed in the Moscow Metro in 1980). Many high-ranking MVD officers, including the Minister himself, were revealed to be routinely bribed by illegal shadow businesses and criminals. Russian Federation The Russian MVD re-formed as the MVD of the Russian SFSR in 1990 following the restorati...
method is a bounded Pareto-distributed. Symmetric Pareto distribution The purpose of Symmetric Pareto distribution and Zero Symmetric Pareto distribution is to capture some special statistical distribution with a sharp probability peak and symmetric long probability tails. These two distributions are derived from Paret...
an exponential distribution with rate α. Pareto distribution can be constructed by hierarchical exponential distributions. Let and . Then we have and, as a result, . More in general, if (shape-rate parametrization) and , then . Equivalently, if and , then . Relation to the log-normal distribution The Pareto distributio...
distinct points, at least one of them misses the closure of the other one, so (by regularity) there exist disjoint neighborhoods separating one point from (the closure of) the other. Although the definitions presented here for "regular" and "T3" are not uncommon, there is significant variation in the literature: some a...
came later. On the other hand, those results that are truly about regularity generally don't also apply to nonregular Hausdorff spaces. There are many situations where another condition of topological spaces (such as normality, pseudonormality, paracompactness, or local compactness) will imply regularity if some weaker...
element of a field, which is used to define a vector space, usually the field of real numbers Scalar (physics), a physical quantity that can be described by a single element of a number field such as a real number Lorentz scalar, a quantity in the theory of relativity which is invariant under a Lorentz transformation P...
Lorentz transformation Pseudoscalar, a quantity that behaves like a scalar, except that it changes sign under a parity inversion Scalar (computing), any non-composite value Scalar particle in physics is a boson subatomic particle whose spin equals zero See also dot product, also known as scalar product dimensionless qu...
by a payment of 6,000 talents, and is reinstated by Pompey as a "friend of the Roman people" to hold Armenia as a buffer zone. Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War. Gaius Antonius elected Roman praetor. The lex Manilia, supported by Cicero...
has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events in Rome By place Roman Republic Consuls: Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcatius Tullus. Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the y...
and their families clemency, he settles them in agricultural colonies in eastern Mediterranean lands. Pompey takes over the command of Lucius Lucullus in the war against Mithridates VI, and reaps the fruit of the latter's victories. Lex Acilia Calpurnia: permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption....
three years. He defeats the pirates in three months and pacifies Cilicia. Pompey divides the Mediterranean into 13 zones – six in the West and seven in the East – to each of which he assigns a fleet under an admiral. Pompey offers the ex-pirates and their families clemency, he settles them in agricultural colonies in e...
knows the system", i.e., "one ought to design systems under the assumption that the enemy will immediately gain full familiarity with them". In that form, it is called Shannon's maxim. Another formulation is "design your system assuming that your opponents know it in detail. (A former official at NSA's National Compute...
key without using written notes, and correspondents must be able to change or modify it at will; It must be applicable to telegraph communications; It must be portable, and should not require several persons to handle or operate; Lastly, given the circumstances in which it is to be used, the system must be easy to use ...
fleet is destroyed. Osroene Abgar II becomes ruler of Osroene. Births Arsinoe IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII (and probably Cleopatra V) (d. 41 BC) Deaths Antiochus of Ascalon, Greek philosopher (b. c. 130 BC) Cornelia, wife of Julius Caesar (b. 94 BC) Huo Guang, official
Lucullus defeats Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Artaxata. Gaius Antonius Hybrida elected praetor. Ostia, the harbour city of Ancient Rome, is sacked by pirates. The port is set on fire and the consular war fleet is destroyed. Osroene Abgar II becomes ruler of Osroene. Births Arsinoe IV of Egypt, daughter of Pt...
urbe condita). The denomination 69 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 Republic October 6 – Roman Republic troops under Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in...
Lucius Lucullus defeat the army of Tigranes II of Armenia in the Battle of Tigranocerta, and capture Tigranocerta, capital of Armenia. Consuls: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus and Quintus Hortensius. Antiochus XIII Asiaticus is installed as king of Syria. Parthians and Romans re-establish Euphrates as a frontier. G...
Planck constant, ħ is the reduced Planck constant, and c is the speed of light in vacuum, giving The CODATA recommended value [ref?] prior to 20 May 2019 (2018 CODATA) was calculated from the measured value of the gas constant: where R is the universal gas constant NA is the Avogadro constant R∞ is the Rydberg constant...
in 1879; it was formally derived in 1884 by his former student and collaborator, the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann. The equation can also be derived from Planck's law, by integrating over all wavelengths at a given temperature, which will represent a small flat black body box. "The amount of thermal radiation emi...
completing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, spurred by a friend's question about the lamp-post in the middle of nowhere, but he needed more than five years to complete it. The story includes several autobiographical elements and explores a number of themes with general moral and Christian implications, including a...
to trouble Narnia for many hundreds of years. Digory's apple restores his mother's health as his father returns for good after being away on business in India, and he and Polly remain lifelong friends. Uncle Andrew reforms and gives up magic, but still enjoys bragging about his adventures with the Witch. Digory plants ...
remained in Majorca for a considerable time and to have become known to the people there as "lo jueu buscoler", the map Jew, or "el jueu de les bruixoles", the compass Jew. It has long been believed that Jehuda Cresques is the same person as 'Mestre Jacome', a Majorcan cartographer induced by the Portuguese prince Henr...
remained in Majorca for a considerable time and to have become known to the people there as "lo jueu buscoler", the map Jew, or "el jueu de les bruixoles", the compass Jew. It has long been believed that Jehuda Cresques is the same person as 'Mestre Jacome', a Majorcan cartographer induced by the Portuguese prince Henr...
number of lesser-known features of macOS, such as mDNSResponder, which is the multicast DNS responder and a core component of the Bonjour networking technology, and launchd, an advanced service management framework. License In July 2003, Apple released Darwin under version 2.0 of the Apple Public Source License (APSL),...
Apple M1 Macs, as well as the Raspberry Pi 3B. An open-source port of the XNU kernel exists that supports Darwin on Intel and AMD x86 platforms not officially supported by Apple, though it does not appear to have been updated since 2009. An open-source port of the XNU kernel also exists for ARM platforms. Older version...
until after dark the next day. Although his contract allowed for filming interruptions due to religious observances, the clause proved difficult to work around due to the production schedule, and as the season progressed, Briggs appeared less and less. Hill had other problems, as well. After cooperatively crawling thro...
being put into action. This almost always involved very elaborate deceptions, usually several at the same time. Facilitating this, certain team members are masters of disguise, able to impersonate someone connected to the target or even the target himself. This is accomplished with realistic latex face masks and make-u...
Grupo Agrisal, Grupo Poma, Grupo de Sola, and Grupo Hill. Military dictatorships (1931–1979) Between 1931, the year of Gen. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez's coup, and 1944, when he was deposed, there was brutal suppression of rural resistance. The most notable event was the 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising headed by Fa...
from among the former guerrillas and soldiers who fought in the war but not all received land under the peace accord-mandated land transfer program, which ended in January 1997. The majority of them also received agricultural credits. Post-war period (1992–present) The FMLN participated in the 1994 presidential electio...
Music Pixar didn't want to make the film into a musical, as Lassiter felt that it would make the film less real. Whedon later agreed, saying "It would have been a really bad musical because it's a buddy movie. It's about people who won't admit what they want, much less sing about it. ... Buddy movies are about sublimat...
might be able to accomplish. Eager for Pixar to have the funds necessary to negotiate with Disney as an equal partner, and optimistic about the impact the finished film would have, Jobs decided that he would schedule an initial public offering (IPO) of Pixar just a week after the film's November release. Editors, inclu...
faces in prostration, and bore witness it was from Allah alone. and some accounts add that while the polytheists were prostrating Then some of their peers happened by, and began to accost them and threaten them, and made them feel ashamed, so they denied what had happened, and said that they only fell down in prostrati...
blasphemous imposture" (JSS 15, pp. 254–255). While Ibn Hajar al-Asqallani wrote: "All the chains of this narration are weak, except of Said Ibn Jubayr. And when one incident is reported from many different chains, then it means there is something real in this incident. Moreover, this incident has also been narrated th...
over New Orleans offering a similar award for the arrest of the governor. Although the handbills were made in Lafitte's name, Ramsay believes "it is unlikely [the handbills] originated with him". Following the reward offer, Lafitte wrote Claiborne a note denying the charges of piracy. Given the success of his auctions ...
by six gunboats and a tender. The fleet anchored off Grande Terre and the gunboats attacked. By midmorning, 10 armed pirate ships formed a battle line in the bay. Within a short period, Lafitte's men abandoned their ships, set several on fire, and fled the area. When Patterson's men went ashore, they met no resistance....
the dance area or between the dancers, singers, or drummers). Since time immemorial, Pueblo communities have celebrated seasonal cycles through prayer, song, and dance. These dances connect us to our ancestors, community, and traditions while honoring gifts from our Creator. They ensure that life continues and that con...
to which Zuni belongs; it is a language isolate, currently spoken exclusively at Zuni Pueblo. Cultural practices Anthropologists have studied Pueblo peoples extensively and published various classifications of their subdivisions. In 1950, Fred Russell Eggan contrasted the peoples of the Eastern and Western Pueblos, bas...
century under the Bourbon monarchy, starting with the first Spanish Bourbon monarch, Philip V (r. 1700-1746) and reaching its apogee under Charles III (r. 1759-1788). The reorganization of administration has been called "a revolution in government." Reforms sought to centralize government control through reorganization...
own armor and weapons, and those who had a horse received two shares, one for himself, the second recognizing the value of the horse as a machine of war. For the conquest era, two names of Spaniards are generally known because they led the conquests of high indigenous civilizations, Hernán Cortés, leader of the expedit...
2002) was an American poet and artist. He was the husband of author Anne Rice. Biography Rice was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1942. He met his future wife Anne O'Brien in high school. They briefly attended North Texas State University together, before marrying in 1961 and moving to San Francisco in 1962, to enroll at San...
on his 1997 book, Paintings, was particularly impressed by his refusal to sell his artworks, saying, "The great thing about Stan is that he refused to play the game as a painter, and he refused to play the game as a poet." Personal life Rice was an atheist. Death Stan Rice died of brain cancer at age 60, on December 9,...
resort village in New Mexico People and language Taos people, or the Tiwa people Taos language, a Tanoan language spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico The subset of Puebloan peoples who speak the Taos language Other Taiwanese–American Occultation Survey (TAOS) Taos, a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use...
(TAOS) Taos, a sleeping car built by the Budd Company in 1938 for use on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's passenger train, the Super Chief Taos Hum, a phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of a humming character and unknown origin Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the A...
1961) "The Stealer of Souls" (Science Fantasy No. 51, February 1962) "Kings in Darkness" (Science Fantasy No. 54, August 1962) "The Flame Bringers" (Science Fantasy No. 55, October 1962); retitled "The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams" in some later collections. "To Rescue Tanelorn ..." (Science Fantasy No. 56, December 196...
Elric is often cited in discussions of Zenith. Publishing history Elric first appeared in print in a series of six novelettes published in Science Fantasy magazine: "The Dreaming City" (Science Fantasy No. 47, June 1961) "While the Gods Laugh" (Science Fantasy No. 49, October 1961) "The Stealer of Souls" (Science Fanta...
Mountain, Challenger Point and Columbia Point, are named in memory of the crews of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the Space Shuttle Columbia. The range is also home to many high peaks in the 13,000 to 14,000 foot (3,900-4,300 m) range as it continues into New Mexico. In New Mexico most of the mountain area is managed...
the main economic activity. Geology The Colorado Sangre de Cristos are fault-block mountains similar to the Teton Range in Wyoming and the Wasatch Range in Utah. There are major fault lines running along both the east and west sides of the range and, in places, cutting through the range. Like all fault-block mountain r...
of the rift from southern Colorado to El Paso, where it turns southeast and flows toward the Gulf of Mexico. Important cities, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Española, Las Cruces, El Paso, and Ciudad Juárez, lie within the rift. Geology The Rio Grande rift represents the easternmost manifestation of widespread ...
as the Santa Fe Group. This group contains sandstones, conglomerates, and volcanics. Aeolian deposits are also present in some basins. The Rio Grande rift is intersected in northern New Mexico by the NE-SW trending Jemez Lineament which extends well into Arizona. The lineament is defined by aligned volcanic fields and ...
similar latitudes have a practically even distribution of rainfall through the year. Geology Vancouver Island is mostly made up of volcanic and sedimentary rock which was formed offshore on the now disappeared Kula oceanic plate. Around 55 million years ago during the Paleogene Period, a microplate of the Kula Plate su...
the Act for the Union of the colonies, passed by the Imperial Parliament. Arthur Kennedy was appointed governor of the united entity. (He would leave office in 1866 and later became Governor of the West African Settlements, British West Africa.) Victoria became the capital but the legislative assembly was located in Ne...
in 1991 Districts of the province and population at the time of the 1991 census. Mount Currie (main town Kokstad): 41,564 Alfred (main town Harding): 8,794 Port Shepstone: 67,239 Umzinto: 46,919 Ixopo: 22,626 Polela: 4,364 Underberg: 9,584 Impendle: 2,815 Richmond: 23,476 Camperdown: 36,315 Pietermaritzburg: 228,549 Li...
was a province of South Africa from May 1910 until May 1994. Its capital was Pietermaritzburg. During this period rural areas inhabited by the black African population of Natal were organized into the bantustan of KwaZulu, which was progressively separated from the province, becoming partially autonomous in 1981. Of th...
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(comedian) (born 1947), British comedian and musician PC David Copperfield, British police officer and author Film David Copperfield (1911 film), a film by Theodore Marston David Copperfield (1913 film), a film by Thomas Bentley David Copperfield (1922 film), a film by A. W. Sandberg David Copperfield (1935 film), a fi...
Corby, Grantham, Hinckley, Kettering, Loughborough, Newark-on-Trent, Skegness, Wellingborough, and Worksop. Relative proximity to both London and the Northern Powerhouse cities, as well as its position on the national motorway and trunk road networks help the East Midlands to thrive as an economic hub. With a sufficien...
through the East Midlands as part of the High Speed 2 project, of which Phase 2 would bring a new line connecting Birmingham to Leeds, with a proposed station in Toton known as the East Midlands Hub It would also serve the region via "classic-compatible" tracks serving Chesterfield and Sheffield, just outside the regio...
compilation album, 1977 New Wave, an extended play by The Saints, 1977 Songs "The New Wave", a 1994 single by the band Daft Punk later included on their debut album Homework as "Alive" "New Wave", a song by The Parkinsons, 2004 "New Wave Song", a song by Turbonegro from Hot Cars and Spent Contraceptives, 1992 Other New...
film movement which emerged in the late 1950s Japanese New Wave, a group of loosely-connected Japanese filmmakers during the late 1950s and into the 1970s New Wave (political party), a political party in South Korea New Wave science fiction, a movement in science fiction New Wave (design), a typographical design philos...
to the Roman Empire. References External links Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und
Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, online at the Bavarian State Library Grässe,
Birmingham retained its Birmingham City Police and Solihull continued being policed by the Warwickshire Constabulary. The West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority was established in 1968. County creation In 1974, the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect, creating the metropolitan county of West Midlands. This ...
England after Greater London. It appeared as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, to cover parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The county is a NUTS 2 region within the wider NUTS 1 region of the same name. It embraces seven metropolitan boroughs: the cit...
notional "centre of London" and is now the point from which distances from London are measured. History Location and etymology The name of the lost hamlet, Charing, is derived from the Old English word most helpfully spelt cierring, a river bend, thus in the Thames. The suffix "Cross" refers to the Eleanor cross made d...
on a high plinth stands since 1675 roughly where a medieval monument stood for 353 years until destroyed – 28 years before – by Cromwell and his revolutionary government. The famously beheaded King, appearing ascendant, is the work of French sculptor Hubert Le Sueur. The foregoing monument, the Charing Cross, was one o...
programmed at a relatively low-level making calls directly to the underlying Unix operating system and producing a graphical user interface (GUI) using the X11 system. This led to complex programming even for simple projects. An attempt to address this with an object oriented programming model was made in the mid-1980s...
use, and for sale in September 1996. OpenStep/Solaris was shipped only for the SPARC architecture. Description OpenStep differs from NeXTSTEP in various ways: NeXTSTEP is an operating system, whereas OpenStep is an API. Unlike NeXTSTEP, OpenStep does not require the Mach kernel. Each version of NeXTSTEP has a specific ...
total population, 31.6% of those under the age of 18 and 11.0% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Ethnic groups According to the 2010 Census, 44.8% of the population was White (37.0% non-Hispanic white), 40.0% was Black or African American, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.5% Asian, 3.4%...
franchise, with numerous venues throughout the United States and England. In July 2009 the ComedySportz world championship returned to Milwaukee to coincide with its 25th anniversary. Public art and monuments Milwaukee has some 75 sculptures to honor the many people and topics reflecting the city's history. Among the m...
Theodosius and Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 1191 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 438 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 Byzantium Emperor Theodosius II forbids the divulging of se...
Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Byzantium Emperor Theodosius II forbids the divulging of secrets of naval carpentry, probably to avoid its spread to the rising Vandal power in North Africa. February 15 – The Codex Theodosianus, a collection of edicts of Roman ...
literally circle) administrative level. The directly elected chief executive officer of a kreisfreie Stadt is called Oberbürgermeister (literally Superior Burgomaster, in English "Chief Mayor" or "Lord Mayor"). The British counties have no directly corresponding counterpart in Germany. This German system corresponds to...
subdivided into cantons, but its 20 districts are considered equivalent. The department councils of the two departments of Corsica and of the region merged into a unitary authority, officially a collectivité territoriale. Its area of competence covers the whole administrative region and the two administrative departmen...
by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the most deprived council districts in the region are, in descending order – Kingston upon Hull (11th in England), Bradford (32nd), Doncaster (41st), Barnsley (43rd), North East Lincolnshire (49th), Sheffield (63rd), Wakefield (66th), Rotherham (68th), Kirklees (82nd), Leeds (85th), ...
the A63. Guardian Industries makes float glass in Goole; Baracuta Clothing, off A614/A161 junction on the Grange Park Ind Estate are owned by Baird Group (former William Baird) of Leeds off Granary Wharf next to Bridgewater Place, which also owns the Racing Green brand. Timloc, part of Alumasc Group, make ventilation f...