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eight decks, with an increasing number of decks decreasing the house's edge — the house's advantage begins at 3.155% with one deck but falls to 2.751% when eight decks are used. This is in contrast with some other casino card games, such as blackjack, where a higher number of decks used will increase the house edge. Ga... | and two cards are placed face up on the table, with three possible outcomes: If the cards are consecutive in number (for example, a four and a five, or a jack and a queen), the hand is a push and the player's wager is returned. If the two cards are of equal value, a third card is dealt. If the third card is of the same... |
value. Alternatively, a game of skill is one in which the outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill, rather than chance. While a game of chance may have some skill element to it, chance generally plays a greater role in determining its outcome. A game of skill may also may have elements of chance, but sk... | choose the amount of bet and the thing he wants to bet on; the rest is up to chance, therefore these games are still considered games of chance with small amount of skills required. The distinction between 'chance' and 'skill' is relevant because in some countries chance games are illegal or at least regulated, but ski... |
Rings, a sequel to The Hobbit, Tolkien came up with the literary device of using real languages to "translate" fictional languages. He pretended to have translated the original Sôval Phârë speech (Westron or the Common Speech) into English. This device of rendering an imaginary language with a real one was carried furt... | family of Elvish languages. He first started constructing an Elvin tongue in while he was at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He later called it Quenya (), and he continued actively developing the history and grammar of his Elvish languages until his death in 1973. In 1931, he held a lecture about his passion for cons... |
occurring when the right canine also grows out through the lip. Only about 15 percent of females grow a tusk which typically is smaller than a male tusk, with a less noticeable spiral. Collected in 1684, there is only one known case of a female growing a second tusk (image). Scientists have long speculated on the biolo... | sucking it with considerable force into the mouth. It is thought that the beaked whales, which have similarly reduced dentition, also suck up their prey. The distinctive tusk is used to tap and stun small prey, facilitating a catch. Narwhals have a very intense summer feeding society. One study published in the Canadia... |
former name of Somerset Land District, Tasmania Somerset Region in Queensland United Kingdom Somerset, England United States | may refer to: Australia the former name of Somerset Land District, Tasmania Somerset Region in Queensland United Kingdom Somerset, England United States Somerset County, |
I went, 'Yeah I want to make a record.' I would have tried anything." Her 1983 debut album You Broke My Heart in 17 Places featured her first hit single "Breakaway", as well as the international hit cover version of label-mate Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know", which reached #2 in the UK, #35 in Germany and #8 in the ... | head of the punk music label Stiff Records led to Ullman getting a record contract in 1983. Label owner Dave Robinson was taken with some of the musical parodies she had been doing in her television work and signed her. Ullman recounted, "One day, I was at my hairdresser, and Dave Robinson's wife Rosemary leant over an... |
it like affordability, accessibility and quality. Measurement Standard of living is generally measured by standards such as inflation-adjusted income per person and poverty rate. Other measures such as access and quality of health care, income growth inequality, and educational standards are also used. Examples are acc... | water, however it is not always able to be maintained for a long period of time. The factors that go into what is considered part of the DLS is made up of individuals having social, economic, and cultural rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is made up of different articles that states the rights individua... |
SMGL changes as little as possible in packages (only to fit to bare standards such as the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), so it is more immune from the kind of errors resulting from distribution developers tampering, while in turn lacking the potentially necessary patches that projects like Gentoo and Debian apply. His... | Mage spell is "cast", the latest stable release is downloaded from the developer's site rather than Source Mage's. This allows for the most up-to-date system, unlike Gentoo, another popular source-based distribution, which maintains its own customized cache of packages. SMGL changes as little as possible in packages (o... |
secured 298 votes, with Morawski only gaining 221 votes, Wojciechowski won the election and became the second president of Poland. After the election, representatives of the National Assembly appeared in Wojciechowski's residence to notify him about his election as president. He considered that the will of the Sejm and... | notify him about his election as president. He considered that the will of the Sejm and the Senate should be followed. Alfons Erdman appeared at Wojciechowski's office and demanded he abstain from accepting his choice. It was nevertheless too late, Wojciechowski decided that delay in this matter was improper. On 20 Dec... |
his second promotion of the year, this time to flying officer. After the Sicilian campaign was over, Lee came down with malaria for the sixth time in under a year, and was flown to a hospital in Carthage for treatment. When he returned, the squadron was restless, frustrated with a lack of news about the Eastern Front a... | in the final film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was cut from the theatrical release, but the scene was reinstated in the extended edition. The Lord of the Rings marked the beginning of a major career revival that continued in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star ... |
Interregnum), following the first period when a Council of State held executive power. The title was held by Oliver Cromwell (December 1653 – September 1658) and subsequently his son and designated successor Richard Cromwell (September 1658 – May 1659) during what is now known as The Protectorate. The 1653 Instrument o... | Scotland and Ireland was the title of the head of state during the Commonwealth (often called the Interregnum), following the first period when a Council of State held executive power. The title was held by Oliver Cromwell (December 1653 – September 1658) and subsequently his son and designated successor Richard Cromwe... |
or interaction with active adjoining channels causes a physiological imbalance that alters perception. The Hermann grid illusion and Mach bands are two illusions that are often explained using a biological approach. Lateral inhibition, where in receptive fields of the retina receptor signals from light and dark areas c... | fields. However, lateral inhibition as an explanation of the Hermann grid illusion has been disproved. More recent empirical approaches to optical illusions have had some success in explaining optical phenomena with which theories based on lateral inhibition have struggled. Cognitive illusions Cognitive illusions are a... |
unambiguous in situations like password entry boxes where typing mistakes are unacceptable. Monospaced fonts are also used in terminal emulation and for laying out tabulated data in plain text documents. In technical manuals and resources for programming languages, a monospaced font is often used to distinguish code fr... | text editors employ a monospaced font as the default typeface. This increases the readability of source code, which is often heavily reliant on distinctions involving individual symbols, and makes differences between letters more unambiguous in situations like password entry boxes where typing mistakes are unacceptable... |
attended a private crammer in Cambridge which helped him gain entry to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1895, where he studied mechanical and applied science. In 1896, at the age of 18, he travelled to Paris to buy his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, and joined the Automobile Club of France. His Peugeot is believed to have ... | which campaigned against the restrictions imposed on motor vehicles by the Locomotive Act, and became a founder member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain, with which the Association merged in 1897. Rolls was a keen cyclist and spent time at Cambridge bicycle racing. In 1896, he won a Half Blue and the following ye... |
France he was sent home in disgrace after taking part in a brawl. Lord Beaverbrook, whose intervention saved John from a court-martial, sent him back to France where he produced studies for a proposed Canadian War Memorial picture, although the only major work to result from the experience was Fraternity. In 2011, the ... | the town of Martigues, in Provence, located halfway between Arles and Marseilles, and first seen from a train en route to Italy. John wrote that Provence "had been for years the goal of my dreams" and Martigues was the town for which he felt the greatest affection. "With a feeling that I was going to find what I was se... |
thereafter, he was Ginger Rogers' leading man in Lady in the Dark (1944). In 1944, Milland starred in the supernatural horror film, The Uninvited, which was notable for its serious treatment of ghosts and haunting main theme, and for making a star of Gail Russell. He then starred in Fritz Lang's film noir production of... | the army to pursue a career in acting and appeared as an extra in several British productions before getting his first major role in The Flying Scotsman (1929). This led to a nine-month contract with MGM, and he moved to the United States, where he worked as a stock actor. After being released by MGM, Milland was picke... |
drama in verse had been known since the time of Hugo's Hernani. The play was quickly translated into English, German, Russian and other European languages. Cyrano de Bergerac had been a boyhood hero of Rostand, who loved his idealism and courage. He had also thoroughly researched French 17th-century history. The play L... | he had proven to the public that he was something more than a writer of comedies. The production of his heroic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac (28 December 1897, Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title role, was a triumph. The first production lasted for more than 300 consecutive nights.... |
G → G × G is the diagonal map, and eG : G → G is the composition of the unique morphism G → 1 (also called the counit) with e, then m (idG × inv) d = eG and m (inv × idG) d = eG. Note that this is stated in terms of maps – product and inverse must be maps in the category – and without any reference to underlying "eleme... | 1 × G → G is the canonical projection inv is a two-sided inverse for m, i.e. if d : G → G × G is the diagonal map, and eG : G → G is the composition of the unique morphism G → 1 (also called the counit) with e, then m (idG × inv) d = eG and m (inv × idG) d = eG. Note that this is stated in terms of maps – product and i... |
area though with much less authority and respect than in Indonesia or Malaysia. Thailand Vietnam Village, or "làng", is a basis of Vietnam society. Vietnam's village is the typical symbol of Asian agricultural production. Vietnam's village typically contains: a village gate, "lũy tre" (bamboo hedges), "đình làng" (comm... | It also stated that the state of the environment in the small towns and villages is good apart from the low level of infrastructure. In Bulgaria, it is becoming popular to visit villages for the atmosphere, culture, crafts, hospitality of the people and the surrounding nature. This is called selski turizam (), meaning ... |
well as writing songs together at the end of 1991. For four years after this they remained in the relationship, many aspects of this being played out publicly in their lyrics. They took the name of the band from Matthews' experience working in a mental health facility as well as the novel The Doors of Perception by Ald... | well as writing songs together at the end of 1991. For four years after this they remained in the relationship, many aspects of this being played out publicly in their lyrics. They took the name of the band from Matthews' experience working in a mental health facility as well as the novel The Doors of Perception by Ald... |
used to transfer data on Linux Delayed binding, also called TCP connection splicing, is a postponement of the connection between the client and the server in computer networking An operation between two linked lists, in which all or part of one list is transferred to another in constant time by relinking A method in ar... | rule, a transformation of formal languages Splicing of knots creates satellite knots Media Splice (film), a 2009 science fiction film Spliced (TV series), a 2010 Canadian animated TV series Splice (video game), a 2012 puzzle game Other uses Software release life cycle, or Software Product Life Cycle (SPLICE) Splice (pl... |
on 6 August 2001 in the UK, and reached #6 on the UK album chart. Background The album only had one single taken from it, "Stone by Stone" – the group's final single release. Fittingly, the ending of the video for the song features the band members all abandoning their instruments and walking away. The band had announc... | in-sleeve photos were taken from the film, Tiger Bay, which starred Hayley Mills. Hayley was given a thank-you in the album. The album was dedicated to close friend and roadie Barry Cawley, who was killed in a road accident on his bicycle in Betws-y-Coed, North Wales in July 2000. The track, "Imaginary Friend", was wri... |
saying, "I can't stop while there are lives to be saved." The Church of England commemorates her in its Calendar of Saints on 12 October. Cavell, who was 49 at the time of her execution, was already notable as a pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium. Early life and career Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston... | that "at time of war, anyone who with the intention of aiding a hostile power, or of causing harm to the German or allied troops" commits any of the crimes defined in paragraph 90 of the German Penal Code "shall be punished with death for war treason". Specifically, Cavell was charged under paragraph 90 (1) no. 3 Reich... |
Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum is a children's novel, the seventh in the Oz series. Characters include the Woozy, Ojo "the Unlucky", Unc Nunkie, Dr. Pipt, Scraps (the patchwork girl), and others. The book was first published on July 1, 1913, with illustrations by John R. Neill. In 1914, Baum adapted the book to ... | who is about to complete the six-year process of preparing the magical Powder of Life, which can bring inanimate objects to life. Pipt's wife has constructed a life-sized stuffed girl out of patchwork, and wishes her husband to animate her to serve as an obedient household servant. They also meet another of Pipt's crea... |
kèzhàn in Chinese) the name based on the eight virtues: Love, Virtue, Gentleness, Tolerance, Loyalty, Truth, Beauty and Devotion. There, she and Mrs. Lawson not only provided hospitality for travellers, but would also share stories about Jesus, in hopes of spreading nascent Christianity. For a time she served as an ass... | orphans in Taiwan, and was buried in Taipei. Her ministry continues to develop, and is now called Bethany Children's Home in Taipei, http://bethany.org.tw/. The new director, Sharon Chiang, 江秀圈, is called from Seattle Washington to further develop Bethany Children's Home for its new vision and new building. Death and l... |
unit in the area, was based at Cowley Barracks on Bullingdon Green, Cowley. The Vale of White Horse district and parts of the South Oxfordshire administrative district south of the River Thames were historically part of Berkshire, but in 1974 Abingdon, Didcot, Faringdon, Wallingford and Wantage were added to the admini... | Thames such as Grandpont were transferred much earlier, in 1889. Geography Oxfordshire includes parts of three Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In the north-west lie the Cotswolds, to the south and south-east are the open chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs and wooded hills of the Chilterns. The north of the coun... |
Richard Schechner and Andre Gregory have derived inspiration from Grotowski's work. Over the last decade of his life, Grotowski had been investigating the possibility of creating a dramatic structure whose effect would be similar to that of a religious ceremony. After his death (1999), the work was continued by his stu... | cum figuris, are among twentieth-century world theatre's most important achievements, still points of reference for many artists. Among others, Peter Brook, Eugenio Barba, Marketa Kimbrell, Richard Schechner and Andre Gregory have derived inspiration from Grotowski's work. Over the last decade of his life, Grotowski ha... |
in Opole, as the Auschwitz concentration camp was only sixty miles away. Akropolis received much attention and could be said to have launched Grotowski's career internationally due to inventive and aggressive promotion by visiting foreign scholars and theatre professionals. A film of the production was made with an int... | Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków and Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow. He debuted as a director in 1957 in Kraków with Eugène Ionesco's play Chairs and shortly afterward founded a small laboratory theatre in 1959 in the town of Opole in Poland. During the 1960s, the company began to tour internationally and ... |
from the computer systems of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architecture The worm was created by Morris simply to see if it could be done, and was released from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell. (Morris became a tenu... | system administrators might counter this by instructing the computer to report a false positive. Instead he programmed the worm to copy itself 14% of the time, regardless of the status of infection on the computer. This resulted in a computer potentially being infected multiple times, with each additional infection slo... |
programming paradigm Subject (access control) An element in the Resource Description Framework Library science and information science Subject (documents) (subject classification; subject indexing; subject searching) Subject term or index term, a descriptor of a document used in bibliographic records Other uses Commone... | a thing Subject (philosophy), a being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity Linguistics Subject (grammar), who or what a sentence or a clause is about Subject case or nominative case, one of the grammatical cases for a noun Music Subject (music), or 'theme' The... |
in Japan, though the color scheme could be found on controllers released in other countries. Nintendo developed stereoscopic 3D technology for the GameCube, and one launch game, Luigi's Mansion, supports it. However, the feature was never enabled outside of development. 3D televisions were not widespread at the time, a... | Twin Snakes from Konami were successful. Sega, which became a third-party developer after discontinuing its Dreamcast console, ported Dreamcast games such as Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure 2, and developed new franchises, such as Super Monkey Ball. Several third-party developers were contracted to work on new games for... |
to embrace Livingstone. Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to leave Africa until his mission was complete. His illness made him confused and he had judgment difficulties at the end of his life. He explored the Lualaba and, failing to find connections to the Nile, returned to Lake Bangweulu and it... | the land they would find, and the missionaries set out for the marshy region with wholly inadequate supplies of quinine. Biographer Tim Jeal considered this episode a major failing for Livingstone, and indicative of a pattern of putting his goals and career above the lives of those around him. Livingstone was now a cel... |
vat, and then curdled by the addition of liquid rennet. The curd is cut up into pea sized pieces and stirred, releasing whey. The curd is cooked at , and raised quickly to . The whey is strained, and the curds placed into molds to be pressed. After salting in brine and smearing with bacteria, the cheese is ripened for ... | pea sized pieces and stirred, releasing whey. The curd is cooked at , and raised quickly to . The whey is strained, and the curds placed into molds to be pressed. After salting in brine and smearing with bacteria, the cheese is ripened for two months at room temperature, generally on wooden boards, turning every couple... |
blue veins. Historically the cheese was merely a by-product of the much more lucrative butter market. Milk was of little value before the railways as it could not be brought to market before it went off, thus cheese and butter production was the main focus of dairy farms. Dorset butter was highly regarded in London whe... | and was made in very small quantities on just a few farms. However, in the 1980s Woodbridge Farm in Dorset revived the old recipe, and it is now producing the cheese again, but with whole milk. In his poem "Praise O' Do'set", the Dorset poet William Barnes asks, Woont ye have brown bread a-put ye, An' some vinny cheese... |
John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, is very highly rated. Blue Train, Coltrane's sole date as leader for Blue Note, featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, bassist Paul Chambers, and trombonist Curtis Fuller, is often considered his best album from this period. Four of its five tracks are original Coltrane compositions, and the ti... | Philly Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb. During this time he participated in the Davis sessions Milestones and Kind of Blue, and the concert recordings Miles & Monk at Newport (1963) and Jazz at the Plaza (1958). 1959–1961: Period with Atlantic Records At the end of this period, Coltrane recorded Giant Steps (1960), his issued... |
picnic areas, toilets and a boat ramp to make this an ideal site to access the Mary River system. Camping is not permitted at the Mary River Crossing. Rockhole is another popular access point to the waterways of the Mary River. A boat ramp and picnic facilities are located here, where Barramundi fishing is popular. Cou... | Reserve Shady Camp Conservation Area Stuarts Tree Historical Reserve Swim Creek Conservation Area Wildman River Conservation Area Overview The Mary River National Park consists of a collection of small reserve areas which protects part of the Mary River catchment. The Mary River is one of eight rivers in the Top End th... |
Soyuz expendable launch system are manufactured at the Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center (TsSKB-Progress) in Samara, Russia. As well as being used in the Soyuz programme as the launcher for the crewed Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz launch vehicles are now also used to launch robotic Progress supply sp... | put in orbit using the same rocket as the Soyuz. This and the initial civilian designs were done under the Soviet Chief Designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, who did not live to see the craft take flight. Several military derivatives took precedence in the Soviet design process, though they never came to pass. A Soyuz spa... |
position, etc. Examples include the family of terminal control sequence standards known as ECMA-48, ANSI X3.64 or ISO/IEC 6429. History Computer terminals Emulators Local echo Terminal emulators may implement a local echo function, which may erroneously be named "half-duplex", or still slightly incorrectly "echoplex" (... | dealing with "interrupt" and "abort" events that arrive in the middle of locally editing a line. Synchronous terminals In asynchronous terminals data can flow in any direction at any time. In synchronous terminals a protocol controls who may send data when. IBM 3270-based terminals used with IBM mainframe computers are... |
that was a center of commerce for the region. By 1890, the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company's rail line (later the Union Pacific) and the Northern Pacific railroad line helped boost the town's population to 2,000. Alternative note on name and early history Copy of a letter from Northern Pacific Railway agent in M... | The city was highlighted in a comedy special at University of Idaho by actor-comedian Yakov Smirnoff, filmed in late 1990. Using Moscow as its setting pokes fun at Smirnoff emigrating from Moscow, Russia. Parks and recreation There are seventeen neighborhood parks located throughout the town offering a wide variety of ... |
in North America by early modern humans. Numerous kill sites exist and many cave paintings in Europe indicate what they looked like. Many of these Ice Age subspecies died out during the rapid climate changes associated with the end of the last Ice Age or were hunted out by humans, particularly in North America, where t... | began with a single culture, which passed on techniques and breeding stock. It is possible that the two "wild" subspecies remained when all other groups of once-"wild" horses died out because all others had been, perhaps, more suitable for taming by humans and the selective breeding that gave rise to the modern domesti... |
canon in which one line is played backward (e.g. FABACEAE played simultaneously with EAECABAF). An example is found in J. S. Bach's The Musical Offering, which also contains a table canon ("Quaerendo invenietis"), which combines retrogression with inversion by having one player turn the music upside down. See also Göde... | backward (although they can also walk forward and sideways). It originally referred to a kind of canon in which one line is played backward (e.g. FABACEAE played simultaneously with EAECABAF). An example is found in J. S. Bach's The Musical Offering, which also contains a table canon ("Quaerendo invenietis"), |
is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho. It is the state's land-grant and primary research university, and the lead university in the Idaho Space Grant Consortium. The University of Idaho was the state's sole university for 71 years, until 1963, and its College of Law, established in 1909, was first... | remaining structure was eventually deemed infeasible to recover and was demolished with dynamite. The original building's steps were saved and climb the small hill immediately southeast of the south wing. In the meantime, classes were held at sites in Moscow; the Carnegie library, the Methodist church, and local lodge ... |
could create a story about a "dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky thirteen black cat playing with yarn by the window". It is argued that the story would be easier to remember than the list itself. Another method is to actually link each element of the list with a mental picture of an image that includes two ... | envelope, then a black cat eating an envelope. The same logic would be used with the rest of the items. The observation that absurd images are easier to remember is known as the Von Restorff effect, although the success of this effect was refuted by several studies (Hock et al. 1978; Einstein 1987), which found that th... |
live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic (seabirds), others frequent deserts, and a few are found in dense forest, members of this group can also collectively be referred to as shorebirds. Taxonomy, systematics and evolution The order was formerly divided into three subord... | sedis (Late Paleocene/Early Eocene of Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco) Fluviatitavis (Early Eocene of Silveirinha, Portugal) Evolution of parental care in Charadriiformes Shorebirds pursue a larger diversity of parental care strategies than do most other avian orders. They therefore present an attractive set of examples to... |
to 1989. Today there are over 60 student and fellows' rooms in the building along with a music room and a computer room. Park is a Grade II-listed building. Library The Grade II-listed library designed by Basil Champneys in 1903 was opened by John Morley the following year. Specially for the opening, Demeter was writte... | tribute to the work of the principal, Miss Penrose, in her memoir Testament of Youth. Admission of men Starting in the 1970s, the traditionally all-male colleges in Oxford began to admit female students. Since it was assumed that recruiting from a wider demographic would guarantee better students, there was pressure on... |
between the fifth item and a bee hive Bricks: Visualize an association between the sixth item and bricks Heaven: Visualize an association between the seventh item and Heaven Gate: Visualize an association between the eighth item and a gate Wine: Visualize an association between the ninth item and wine Hen: Visualize an... | and a gate Wine: Visualize an association between the ninth item and wine Hen: Visualize an association between the tenth item and a chicken. For example, to remember the following grocery list of 10 items: Apple: Picture an apple eating a bun Butter: Picture a pad of butter melting on a shoe Batteries: Picture a tree ... |
"initials", using the initial letters of a phrase describing a person, such as "80 = HO = Santa Claus, laughing and holding his belly (HO, HO, HO!)". Encoding pairs of digits as actions Once each pair of digits has been associated with a person one can then cheaply create a corresponding action for each person. For exa... | system as a person-action system as well, so the main difference is the way that images are assigned to the numbers. Like the mnemonic major system, the Dominic system can be combined with a memory palace, thereby creating the Hotel Dominic. Encoding pairs of digits as people Using the Dominic system every pair of digi... |
to tiny birds like the least storm petrel, at with a wingspan, and the smallest of the prions, the fairy prion, with a wingspan of . Their nostrils are enclosed in one or two tubes on their straight deeply-grooved bills with hooked tips. The beaks are made up of several plates. Their wings are long and narrow; the feet... | New Zealand and Chile to the North Pacific off Japan, Alaska and California, an annual round trip of , the longest measured annual migration of any bird. A number of other petrel species undertake trans-equatorial migrations, including the Wilson's storm petrel and the Providence petrel, but no albatrosses cross the eq... |
movie The Brain Eaters, and had a role in The Balcony (1963), a film adaptation of the Jean Genet play. With Vic Morrow, he co-produced Deathwatch, a 1965 English-language film version of Genet's play Haute Surveillance, adapted and directed by Morrow and starring Nimoy. The story dealt with three prison inmates. Partl... | photographer who achieved international fame for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years; from two pilot episodes in 1964 and 1965 to his final film performance in 2013. Originating the role of Spock on Star Trek: The Original Series, he went on to play him again on Star Trek: The Animated Series, ... |
time, he grew up alongside his older half-brother Sybok, until the older brother was cast out for rejecting logic. In Star Trek: Discovery, it is revealed that Spock has a human, adopted sister, Michael Burnham. According to the episode "Amok Time", Spock was betrothed to T'Pring (Arlene Martel) during his childhood. S... | time, but the events of the episode were shown in the two-part episode "The Menagerie" of the first season, and Spock's previous 11 years of service on the Enterprise were described. Spock was one of the members of the away team who joined Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) on a mission to Talos IV in order to i... |
traveling through a new, world-wide, inter-dimensional travel system. Some humans are given an implant similar to a CVI, while others, including his sister, are used for some unknown breeding experiment. The continued use and function of this travel system appears to be another point of contention between Da’an and Zo’... | Setting Early in the 21st century, a race of aliens, the Taelons (often referred to as "the Companions"), travel to Earth and take up residence in limited numbers. The Taelons possess highly advanced technologies, many of which they share with humanity, seemingly out of generosity and good will. As a result of these ad... |
Motion Picture, viewers are informed that she has now become Doctor Chapel, a role which she reprised briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as Commander Chapel. Barrett provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel and a communications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid ... | with the intention of marrying Barrett. She subsequently joined Roddenberry in Tokyo, where they were married in a Shinto ceremony on August 6, 1969. Roddenberry had considered it "sacrilegious" to use an American minister in Japan, and the ceremony was attended by two Shinto priests as well as maids of honor. Roddenbe... |
while rhythmically repeating key material. Passive review can also be combined with other learning strategy to further enhance outcomes. For instance, the so-called Suggestive Accelerated Learning and Teaching Techniques (SALTT) alternate it with active recall and are complemented by physical relaxation exercise, and c... | 8, 16, 32, 64, etc., days later. They don't ask themselves to explain the content of the text, but only reread the content. If they think to recall something, they are more likely to keep it in their memory. A passive review strategy includes music as an accompaniment. Particularly, the learner listens to Baroque music... |
Number of the Beast (comics), a comic book limited series The Number of the Beast (novel), by Robert Heinlein "The Number of the Beast Is 666" (Hannibal), an episode of the TV series The Number of the Beast is 666, one of The Great Red Dragon | from the album The Number of the Beast (play), a 1982 drama by Snoo Wilson about Aleister Crowley Number of the Beast (comics), a comic book limited series The Number of the Beast (novel), by Robert Heinlein "The Number of the Beast Is 666" (Hannibal), an episode |
the book while held in prison alongside Pixel, the eponymous character of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in backcountry Missouri, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families (whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children), marriag... | part of the "Lazarus Long" cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or 'World as Myth': the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere (for example) the Land of Oz is real. O... |
disagrees): John Joseph Bonforte. Bonforte is the leader of the Expansionist coalition, currently out of office but with a good chance of changing that at the next general election. Bonforte has been kidnapped by his political opponents, and his aides want Smith to impersonate Bonforte while they try to find him. Bonfo... | Plot summary The novel is set in the future, when the Moon, Mars, Venus and Jupiter's satellites have been colonized and the Solar System is governed by a parliamentary democracy from a capital city on the Moon. The indigenous alien race inhabiting Mars has recently been admitted to citizenship in the human-dominated s... |
roommate and as serious as mutiny. The ship visits several star systems, including Beta Hydri. Due to the nature of relativistic travel (see Twin paradox), the twin who remained behind ages faster and eventually the affinity between them weakens to the point where they can no longer communicate easily. Some of the spac... | as well as to provide replacements for the inevitable deaths. The LRF has found that some twins and triplets can communicate with each other telepathically. The process seems instantaneous and unaffected by distance, making it the only practical means of communication for ships traveling many light-years away from Eart... |
Guard help reunite Thorby with his family, if possible. Thorby discovers that Baslim was actually a colonel in the Hegemonic Guard who volunteered to spy on Jubbul to fight slavery. In order to avoid paying for a costly background search, Thorby agrees to enlist in the Hegemonic Guard. Thorby is ultimately identified a... | for the rescue of one of their crews from a slaver, the captain takes Thorby aboard at great risk to himself and his clan. The Free Traders are an insular, clannish, matriarchal culture who live their lives in space, traveling from world to world trading. Thorby is adopted by the captain (thereby gaining considerable s... |
feted by the Earth's elite. He investigates many religions, including the Fosterite Church of the New Revelation, a populist megachurch in which sexuality, gambling, alcohol consumption, and similar activities are allowed and even encouraged and considered "sinning" only when they are not under church auspices. The Chu... | born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture. The title "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a direct quotation from the King James Bible (taken from Exodus 2:22). The working title for the book was "A Martian Named Smith", which was also the... |
must leave; her world has no place or need for a hero of his stature. It will be decades before she can complete the transfer of the knowledge held in the Egg, so he must go alone. He returns to Earth but has difficulty readjusting to his own world, despite having brought great wealth along with him. He begins to doubt... | many worlds—and Rufo's grandmother. The Egg is a cybernetic device that contains the knowledge and experiences of most of her predecessors. Despite her youthful appearance, she is the mother of dozens of children (by egg donation) and has undergone special medical treatments that extend her life much longer than usual.... |
by the Russian flavor of the dialect, and the Russian place names such as "Novy Leningrad." Continuing Heinlein's speculation about unorthodox social and family structures, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress introduces the idea of a "line marriage." Mannie is part of a century-old line marriage, wherein new spouses are intro... | marriage. In a divorce, he implies, the separated man (or men) who contributed towards its cost would have money returned to him. After decades during which antisocial individuals were eliminated in brawls and vendettas disregarded by an indifferent Authority, the Loonies live by the following code: Pay your debts, col... |
new body. He advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from a brain-dead patient. Smith omits to place any restriction on the sex of the donor, so when his beautiful young female secretary, Eunice Branca, is murdered, her body is used. He changes his name to Joan Eunice Smith, with the first n... | a brain-dead patient. Smith omits to place any restriction on the sex of the donor, so when his beautiful young female secretary, Eunice Branca, is murdered, her body is used. He changes his name to Joan Eunice Smith, with the first name given "the two-syllable pronunciation" Jo-Ann to mimic the sound of his original n... |
urges him that "Tolliver must die" and is himself shot before the writer's eyes. The writer—Colonel Colin Campbell, living under a number of aliases including his pen name "Richard Ames"—is joined by a beautiful and sophisticated lady, Gwendolyn Novak, who helps him flee to Luna with a bonsai maple and a would-be murde... | Is a Harsh Mistress. Engaged in frequent time-travel, the Time Corps has been responsible for changing various events in the past, creating an alternate universe with every time-line they disrupt. Mike's assistance is needed in order to accurately predict the conditions and following events in each of the new universes... |
a negative impression (i.e., a three-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape. The metal is poured into the mold through a hollow channel called a sprue. The metal and mold are then cooled, and the metal part (the casting) is extracted. Casting is most often used for making complex shapes that would be difficu... | of years, and have been widely used for sculpture (especially in bronze), jewelry in precious metals, and weapons and tools. Highly engineered castings are found in 90 percent of durable goods, including cars, trucks, aerospace, trains, mining and construction equipment, oil wells, appliances, pipes, hydrants, wind tur... |
in "Chapter 16: The Rescue", the season two finale of The Mandalorian, after Grogu contacted him via the Force in a previous episode. Luke arrives on Moff Gideon's cruiser and destroys all of the Dark Troopers, saving Grogu and his guardian, Din Djarin, as well as their companions. Luke then takes Grogu with him to tra... | with Yoda on Dagobah. He also appears in the episode "Traps and Tribulations", which takes place shortly after the Battle of Endor and shows him and Leia assisting the Ewoks in stopping a rampaging monster known as a Gorax. Luke appears in "Chapter 16: The Rescue", the season two finale of The Mandalorian, after Grogu ... |
the separation, or angular distance, between the two component stars in the sky and the position angle. The position angle specifies the direction in which the stars are separated and is defined as the bearing from the brighter component to the fainter, where north is 0°. These measurements are called measures. In the ... | between binary stars and other double stars Confirmation of a visual double star as a binary star can be achieved by observing the relative motion of the components. If the motion is part of an orbit, or if the stars have similar radial velocities or the difference in their proper motions is small compared to their com... |
and expensive materials, notably stone, marble and wood, displaying natural patterns and textures in flat planes, executed in first rate craftsmanship. The distinction is not between complicated and simple, but between "organic" and superfluous decoration. Loos was also interested in the decorative arts, collecting ste... | States and stayed there for three years from 1893 to 1896. While in the United States, he mainly lived with relatives in the Philadelphia area, supported himself with odd jobs and also visited other cities such as the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, St. Louis and New York. Loos returned to Vienna in 1896 and m... |
Lorrah (born 1938) H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) Archibald Low (1888–1956) Nathan Lowell (born 1952) Robert A. W. Lowndes (1916–1998) Lois Lowry (born 1937) George Lucas (born 1944) Lucian (120–after 180) Nicole Luiken (born 1971) Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968) Sam Lundwall (born 1941) Duncan Lunan (born 1945) Richard A. ... | (1930–1999) Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956) Johanna Braun (1929–2008) Mark Brandis (1931–2000) Miles J. Breuer (1889–1945) Reginald Bretnor (1911–1992) David Brin (born 1950) Jason V Brock (born 1970) Damien Broderick (born 1944) Kristi Brooks (born 1980) Max Brooks (born 1972) Terry Brooks (born 1944) John Brosnan (1947–... |
such as the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California (1955), the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company in Pasadena, California (1956), and the United States pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (1957), repeated elements originally designed for the embassy. The Stuart building and World’s Fair pavilion ... | Hotel first phase, Beirut, Lebanon (Elias and Dagher, associated architects, 1954. Second phase by Joseph Philippe Karam, then altered 1997) Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, California (1955) Bruno & Josephine Graf Residence, Dallas, Texas (1956) Main Library and Mitchell Park Branch Library, Palo Alto, California (... |
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(Ernst) Werner (since 1888) von Siemens (known as Werner) (1816, Gehrden – 1892), inventor, founder of Siemens AG (Carl) Wilhelm Siemens (known as (Charles) Wilhelm or Sir William Siemens) (1823, Lenthe – 1883), brother of Werner von Siemens Carl (Heinrich) von Siemens (1829, Menzendorf – 1906), brother of Werner von S... | Georg von Siemens (1839–1901), banker and politician, nephew of Werner von Siemens Alexander Siemens (1847, Hanover – 1928), cousin of Werner von Siemens Arnold (since 1888) von Siemens (1853, Berlin – 1918), son of Werner von Siemens (Georg) Wilhelm (since 1888) von Siemens (known as Wilhelm) (1855, Berlin – 1919), so... |
horror Cthulhu Mythos Dark fantasy Erotic horror Fantastique Ghost story Lovecraftian horror Psychological horror Splatterpunk Vampire fiction Werewolf fiction Weird fiction Author lists: List of fantasy authors List of Clarion South Writers Workshop Instructors List of Clarion West Writers Workshop Alumni List of Clar... | especially fantasy and science fiction. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Z See also Subgenres: Body horror Cthulhu Mythos Dark fantasy Erotic horror Fantastique Ghost story Lovecraftian horror Psychological horror Splatterpunk Vampire fiction Werewolf fiction Weird fiction Author lists: List |
career, Meier worked with artists such as painter Frank Stella and favored structures that were white and geometric. Meier first gained significant recognition for his designs of various residences, in addition to The Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana (1979) and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia (1983).One of h... | Meier was born to a Jewish family, the oldest of three sons of Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman, in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Maplewood, where he attended Columbia High School. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957. After ... |
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (formerly the Detroit Plaza Hotel, The Westin Hotel Renaissance Center Detroit), 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 100, 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 200, 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 300, 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 400, 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 5... | Building), Fort Worth, 1969–1974 Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, 1976 Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, 1974–1976 Renaissance Center, Detroit Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center (formerly the Detroit Plaza Hotel, The Westin Hotel Renaissance Center Detroit), 1973–1977 Renaissance Center Tower 100, 19... |
the people of the earth to return to godliness. All other very long-lived people died, and Methuselah was the only one of this class left. God planned to bring the flood after all the men who walked in the ways of the Lord had died (besides Noah and his family). Methuselah lived until the ark was built, but died before... | (besides Noah and his family). Methuselah lived until the ark was built, but died before the flood, since God had promised he would not be killed with the unrighteous. The Sefer haYashar gives Methuselah's age at death as 960. Methuselah (Arabic: Mattūshalakh) is also mentioned in Islam in the various collections of ta... |
A–B C–D E–F G–H I–J K–L M–N O–R S–T | is a partial list of published |
and exhibits strong nest-site fidelity. Both sexes of the horned puffin help to construct their nest. Horned puffin burrows are usually about deep, ending in a chamber, while the tunnel leading to a tufted puffin burrow may be up to long. The nesting substrate of the tufted and Atlantic puffins is soft soil, into which... | low over the ocean's surface. Taxonomy The genus Fratercula was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) as the type species. The name Fratercula is Latin for "little brother", a reference to the black and white plumage, which resembles monastic r... |
diagrammatic forms popular at the time, and included examples — both built and unrealized — of his own work to demonstrate the possible application of such techniques. The book has been published in 18 languages to date. Immediately hailed as a theorist and designer with radical ideas, Venturi went to teach a series of... | the Yale School of Architecture and was a visiting lecturer with Scott Brown in 2003 at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Architectural theories A controversial critic of what he saw as the blithely functionalist and symbolically vacuous architecture of corporate modernism during the 1950s, Venturi was on... |
and murrelets being the most efficient under the water, whereas the puffins and auklets are better adapted for flying and walking. Feeding and ecology The feeding behaviour of auks is often compared to that of penguins; both groups are wing-propelled, pursuit divers. In the region where auks live, their only seabird co... | auks have shown that they can dive as deep as in the case of Uria guillemots, for the Cepphus guillemots and for the auklets. Breeding and colonies Auks are pelagic birds, spending the majority of their adult lives on the open sea and going ashore only for breeding, although some species, such as the common guillemot, ... |
design students, as a place to test his urban design hypotheses. This "urban laboratory" (so-dubbed by Ada Louise Huxtable, who at the time was the architectural critic of The NY Times) became internationally renowned. Paolo and Colly Soleri made a lifelong commitment to research and experimentation in urban planning. ... | Alumni Network. Other achievements The International Architecture Symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology in 1984 received international attention. Paolo Soleri participated with, among others: Justus Dahinden, Dennis Sharp, Bruno Zevi, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Ott... |
and hotel programs. He created the world's longest ‘Horizontal Skyscraper.’ Safdie and his team have used skybridges and multi-level connectivity to make skyscrapers more accessible. Practice Moshe Safdie is the Founding Principal and Lead Designer at Safdie Architects, founded in 1964 to realize Habitat 67. Safdie Arc... | 1967. Principal publications on Moshe Safdie Jewel Changi Airport. Melbourne, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2020. Safdie. Mulgrave, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2014. Reaching for the Sky: The Marina Bay Sands Singapore. Singapore: ORO Editions, 2013. Peace Building: The Mission, Work, and Architecture of th... |
construction completed 2012 Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban (National Assembly Building) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was Kahn's last project, developed 1962 to 1974. Kahn got the design contract with the help of Muzharul Islam, one of his students at Yale University, who worked with him on the project. The Banglade... | views and insights into the architecture of Kahn while exploring him personally through people who knew him: family, friends, and colleagues. Designs Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (1951–1953), the first significant commission of Louis Kahn. The ceilings, which are three feet (0.9 meters) thick, co... |
U. American author James Thurber wrote The Wonderful O (1957), a fairy tale in which villains ban the letter 'O' from use by the inhabitants of the island of Oooroo. The book Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (2001) is described as a "progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable": the plot of the story deals with a small co... | of a statue. As each letter is outlawed within the story, it is (for the most part) no longer used in the text of the novel. It is not purely lipogrammatic, however, because the outlawed letters do appear in the text proper from time to time (the characters being penalized with banishment for their use) and when the pl... |
June 1948. In 1923, German botanist Ignatz Urban published Siemensia, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plant from Cuba belonging to the family Rubiaceae and named in Werner von Siemens honour. U.S. Patents — Electric railway (21 July 1885) — Electric railway (20 April 1886) — Electric meter (19 November 1889) — ... | William Siemens) and another in St. Petersburg, Russia (Carl von Siemens), each earning recognition. Following his industrial career, he was ennobled in 1888, becoming Werner von Siemens. He retired from his company in 1890 and died in 1892 in Berlin. The company, reorganized as Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens-Schuckertwe... |
cold on top of mountains and the edges of glaciers. They belong, along with Mantophasmatidae (rock crawlers), to the order Notoptera. Grylloblattids are wingless insects mostly less than 3 cm long, with a head resembling that of a cockroach, with long antennae and having elongated cerci arising from the tip of their ab... | is between 1-4 °C (33.8-39.2 °F). They can be killed at colder temperatures due to ice formation in the body, so when the temperature drops below their optimal range they survive by living under snow pack near the soil. They have a very narrow range of temperatures that they prefer and cannot withstand high temperature... |
and Islamic wings. Born in Dublin and a graduate from University College Dublin, Roche went to the United States to study with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In the U.S., he became the principal designer for Eero Saarinen, and opened his own architectural firm in 1967. Among other awa... | Headquarters, Paris, France 2003 – 1101 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C. 2003 – Renovation to Greek and Roman Court at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2005 – Lafayette Tower, Washington, D.C. 2007 – Renovation to American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 2008 – Renovation to American Wing at Metropolit... |
SOM which had previously been active between 2002 and 2004. The year 2020 marked a change in which three female partners, Carrie Byles, Xuan Fu, and Laura Ettleman were named to the Executive Committee of the 1250-person firm. SOM Foundation The SOM Foundation was first established in 1979 with the mission to support a... | came to be seen early on at SOM as a means of generating rather than simply realizing architectural ideas, with concerted effort, computers gained credence at the firm, and eventually throughout the industry, as a catalyst for architectural innovation. In 1980, an in-house team at SOM created Architecture Engineering S... |
like Meganeuropsis permiana from the Permian of North America, reached wing spans of up to and a body length of , making it the largest insect of all time. This insect belonged to the order Meganisoptera, the griffinflies, related to odonates but not part of the modern order Odonata in the restricted sense. They have o... | distinguished with dragonflies, placed in the suborder Epiprocta, usually being larger, with eyes together and wings up or out at rest, while damselflies, suborder Zygoptera, are usually smaller with eyes placed apart and wings along body at rest. All Odonata have aquatic larvae called nymphs, and all of them, larvae a... |
same forwards and backwards. Anglish, favouring Anglo-Saxon words over Greek and Roman/Latin words. Pilish, where the lengths of consecutive words match the digits of the number π. Anagrams, words or sentences formed by rearranging the letters of another. Limitations in punctuation, such as Peter Carey's book True Hist... | of 50,000 words, none of which contain the letter "e". In 1969, French writer Georges Perec published La Disparition, a novel that did not include the letter "e". It was translated into English in 1995 by Gilbert Adair. Perec subsequently joked that he incorporated the "e"s not used into La Disparition in the novella (... |
two occur in the wild in similar ranges. Mayans kept herds of peccaries, using them in rituals and for food. They are kept as pets in many countries, in addition to being raised on farms as a source of food. Etymology The word "peccary" is derived from the Carib word or . In Portuguese, a peccary is called , , , or , a... | The collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) or "musk hog", referring to the animal's scent glands, occurs from the Southwestern United States into South America and the island of Trinidad. The coat consists of wiry peppered black, gray, and brown hair with a lighter colored "collar" circling the shoulders. They bear young ... |
as an equivalent of domain or empire or as an independent rank between kingdom and domain or subdomain. In some classification systems the additional rank branch (Latin: ramus) can be inserted between subkingdom and infrakingdom, e.g., Protostomia and Deuterostomia in the classification of Cavalier-Smith. History Two k... | Two kingdoms of life The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) laid the fou... |
Count of Tecklenburg (died 1367) Nicholas I Garai (died 1386), chief governor of Bratislava, palatine to the King of Hungary Nicholas I of Opole ( 1424–1476) Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448–1473) Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687–1759); Swiss mathematician Nicholas I, Prince Esterházy (1714–1790), Hungarian prince Nicholas... | I may refer to: Pope Nicholas I ( 800–867), or Nicholas the Great Nicholas Mystikos (852–925), Patriarch Nicholas I of Constantinople Nicholas I (bishop of the Isles) (fl. 1147–1152), Bishop-elect of the Isles Nicholas I, Lord of Mecklenburg (died 1200) Nicholas I of Transylvania (died after 1203), voivode of Transylva... |
Paying all bills of the U.S.; Managing the federal finances; Managing government accounts and the United States public debt; Supervising national banks and thrift institutions; Advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy (fiscal policy being the sum of these); Enforcing fe... | as a remnant of the country's transition from British to American English. For example, the department notes its guiding purpose as "Treasury's mission" instead of "the Treasury's mission." Robert Morris was designated Superintendent of Finance in 1781 and restored stability to the nation's finances. Morris, a wealthy ... |
Córdoba CF, a Spanish football club RCD Córdoba, defunct Spanish football team from Córdoba, Andalusia Córdoba F.C., a defunct Colombian football team, from Montería, Córdoba, Colombia Treaties Cordoba Agreement, 2006, an agreement between the Governments of Spain, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar Treaty of Córdoba, es... | to: Córdoba, Spain, a major city in southern Spain and formerly the imperial capital of Islamic Spain Córdoba, Argentina, 2nd largest city in the country and capital of Córdoba Province Córdoba or Cordoba may also refer to: Places Argentina Córdoba Province, Argentina Colombia Córdoba Department Córdoba, Quindío Córdob... |
Calatrava was considered that would look like the Lusitania Bridge of Mérida, but this was eventually discarded because its height would obscure the view of the Great Mosque. Autovía del Sur Bridge. Abbas Ibn Firnas Bridge, Inaugurated in January 2011 It is part of the variant west of Córdoba. Puente del Arenal, connec... | famous monuments of Western Islamic (Moorish) architecture. It integrated aspects of Islamic architecture with some indigenous elements of Roman and Visigothic architecture. Later Umayyad rulers expanded the mosque, adding a minaret and extending the prayer hall. A major 10th-century expansion resulted in the elaborate... |
Carolina, a town Cordova, Tennessee Cordova, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Other uses Cordova (surname) Apache Cordova, a mobile software development framework Cordova Mall, in Pensacola, Florida Cordova Rebellion, an 1839 uprising in Texas USS Cordova, an escort carrier of the United States Navy, later tr... | Cordova, Illinois, a village in Rock Island County Cordova, Kentucky, an unincorporated community Cordova, Maryland, a village Cordova, Minnesota, an unincorporated community Cordova Township, Le Sueur County, Minnesota Cordova, Nebraska, a village Cordova, New Mexico, an unincorporated community and census-designated ... |
with the "Masquerade" in which the members fake their deaths and obtain new identities. The Masquerade helped the Families survive the dictatorship of Nehemiah Scudder, but as an experiment, some Howard members reveal themselves to The Covenant, hoping that the free society established after Scudder's defeat will be fr... | Chief of Naval Operations during World War II, and had dated one of his daughters and been the usher at the wedding of another. King, who was known throughout his life for his irascibility, took command of the aircraft carrier in 1930. Ensign Heinlein was assigned to the ship and served under King for the next year and... |
the bicycle and automobile industries in Hartford. Industrialist Albert Pope was inspired by a British-made, high-wheeled bicycle (called a velocipede) that he saw at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, and he bought patent rights for bicycle production in the United States. He wanted to contract out his first... | are warm to hot and humid. Spring and fall are normally transition seasons, with weather ranging from mild to cool. The city of Hartford lies in USDA Hardiness zone 6a. Seasonally, the period from May through October is warm to hot in Hartford, with the hottest months being June, July, and August. In the summer months ... |
that has become a sensation for its strategy and tactics is the XCOM franchise, specifically the two most recent games, XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012) and XCOM 2 (2016). These two games portray the player as a commander of an international organization known as XCOM. The player's job is to repel an alien force using the re... | strategy One of the most focused team strategy games is contract bridge. This card game consists of two teams of two players, whose offensive and defensive skills are continually in flux as the game's dynamic progresses. Some argue that the benefits of playing this team strategy card game extend to those skills and str... |
this style are on steles. The Lìshū style (/) (clerical script) which is more regularized, and in some ways similar to modern text, were also authorised under Qin Shi Huangdi. Between clerical script and traditional regular script, there is another transitional type of calligraphic work called Wei Bei. It started durin... | calligraphic traditions continue to be preserved. Mongolia Mongolian calligraphy is also influenced by Chinese calligraphy, from tools to style. Tibet Tibetan calligraphy is central to Tibetan culture. The script is derived from Indic scripts. The nobles of Tibet, such as the High Lamas and inhabitants of the Potala Pa... |
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