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Etruscans are granted Roman citizenship. Corfinium in south-central Italy is the center of a rebellion against Rome. The Lex Iulia grants citizenship to all Italians who did not oppose Rome during the Social War. Cicero starts to serve in the Roman army. Asia Minor Nicomedes IV of Bithynia is defeated in battle by a co... | the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic Consuls: Lucius Julius Caesar and Publius Rutilius Lupus. Social War continues: Pompeius Strabo and Gaius Marius distinguish themselves. The Etruscans are granted Roman citizenship. Corfinium in south-central Italy is the center of a rebell... |
92 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pulcher and Perperna (or, less frequently, year 662 Ab urbe condita) and the First Year of Zhenghe. The denomination 92 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calend... | 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 Consuls: Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Perperna. In the first diplomatic contact between Rome and Parthia, Sulla meets with a Parthian envoy, resulting in the par... |
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 Consuls: Sextus Julius Caesar and Lucius Marcius Philippus. The tribune Marcus Livius Drusus proposes extending Roman citizenship to allied Italian cities, but i... | Italian cities, but is assassinated, leading to the Social War. Asia Liu Ju, crown prince of the Han dynasty, revolts against his father, Emperor Wu, and his witchcraft trials. After his rebellion fails, he hangs himself. Records of the Grand Historian compiled by Sima Qian. Births Xuan of Han, emperor of the Han Dynas... |
method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Republic Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the populares faction. Sulla arrives in Greece and besieges Athens. He orders Lucius Licinius Lucullus to raise a fleet from Rome's allies around the eastern Medite... | Year of Houyuan. The denomination 87 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 Lucius Cornelius Cinna is elected consul of Rome, thus returning the rule of Rome back to the popu... |
the Consulship of Strabo and Cato (or, less frequently, year 665 Ab urbe condita) and the Fourth Year of Zhenghe. The denomination 89 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 C... | War: Roman forces under Lucius Porcius Cato are defeated by the Italian rebels in the Battle of Fucine Lake, Cato is killed. The Roman army of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo decisively defeats the rebels in the Battle of Asculum. Lex Plautia Papiria extends citizenship to all Italians who applied for it within 60 days. The new... |
Africa. First Civil War in Rome, between Marius and Sulla. Some Italian cities are destroyed: for instance, Forlì, rebuilt by the praetor Livius Clodius afterwards. The Dardani, Scordisci, and the Maedi attack the Roman province of Macedonia. Greece May – King Mithridates VI of Pontus invades Greece. Defeating the Roma... | of Sulla and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 666 Ab urbe condita) and the First Year of Houyuan. The denomination 88 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 The Social War en... |
voices. For example, a thick texture contains many "layers" of instruments. One of these layers could be a string section, or another brass. The thickness also is affected by the number and the richness of the instruments playing the piece. The thickness varies from light to thick. A lightly textured piece will have li... | music, including tuning systems and composition methods among other topics. Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence. This is not an absolute guideline, however; for exam... |
but again, test whether it is "new". A recursively enumerable language is a formal language for which there exists a Turing machine (or other computable function) that will halt and accept when presented with any string in the language as input but may either halt and reject or loop forever when presented with a string... | Turing machine which will enumerate all valid strings of the language. Recursively enumerable languages are known as type-0 languages in the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages. All regular, context-free, context-sensitive and recursive languages are recursively enumerable. The class of all recursively enumerable lan... |
Undecidable problem in computer science and mathematical logic, a decision problem that no algorithm can decide, formalized as an undecidable language or undecidable set "Undecidable", sometimes also used as a synonym of independent, something that can neither be | as a synonym of independent, something that can neither be proved nor disproved within a mathematical theory Undecidable figure, a two-dimensional drawing of something that cannot exist in 3d, such as |
for the equivalent in mathematical logic Decidable problem and Undecidable problem Gödel's incompleteness theorem, a theorem on the indecidability of languages consisting of | the indecidability of languages consisting of "true statements" in mathematical logic. Recursive set, a "decidable set" in recursion theory |
feed on the wood structures they inhabit, and others harvest food that is near the nest. Most workers are rarely found out in the open, and do not forage unprotected; they rely on sheeting and runways to protect them from predators. Subterranean termites construct tunnels and galleries to look for food, and workers who... | others are in the genus Mermis, Diplogaster aerivora and Harteria gallinarum. Under imminent threat of an attack by parasites, a colony may migrate to a new location. Certain fungal pathogens such as Aspergillus nomius and Metarhizium anisopliae are, however, major threats to a termite colony as they are not host-speci... |
and Shellac Seals discusses the various formulations, and the period when shellac started to be added to the previous beeswax recipes. The "period of widespread introduction" would seem to be around 1550 to 1650, when the substance moved from being a rarity on highly decorated pieces to being described in the standard ... | India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish. Shellac functions as a tough natural primer, sanding sealant, tannin-blocker, odour-blocker, stain, and high-gloss varnish. Shellac was once used ... |
in growing industrial urban communities like the Quincy, Calumet & Hecla and Champion mining {See, Copper Range Company} settlements, and cleared forestland for traditional Finnish agriculture as in Toivola, Tapiola, Elo, Pelkie, and Waasa; Finns settled north and south of the Portage Waterway that bisects the peninsul... | particularly for the Finns. As one scholarly source notes: Finnish immigration to Michigan’s copper district grew to become the most populous ethnic group with an enduring cultural identity. Kuparisaari, “copper island,” went beyond the Finnish immigrant identification of the island that comprises the northern half of ... |
initially pitched the new series to Hardy Boys publishers Grosset & Dunlap as the "Stella Strong Stories", adding that "they might also be called 'Diana Drew Stories', 'Diana Dare Stories', 'Nan Nelson Stories', 'Nan Drew Stories', or 'Helen Hale Stories'." Editors at Grosset & Dunlap preferred "Nan Drew" of these opti... | often praised for her seemingly masculine traits… she operates best independently, has the freedom and money to do as she pleases, and outside of a telephone call or two home, seems to live for solving mysteries rather than participating in family life." 1959–1985: Continuation of Mystery Stories, revisions at Grosset ... |
Blade, and as a writer of many books. She continued to work full-time (mostly writing obituaries) until a few months before her death. She died from lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 96. Benson was a great adventurer, making numerous trips to Central America, traversing the jungle in a Jeep, canoeing down rivers, visit... | for 58 years as a journalist, writing a weekly column for the Toledo Blade, and as a writer of many books. She continued to work full-time (mostly writing obituaries) until a few months before her death. She died from lung cancer in 2002 at the age of 96. Benson was a great adventurer, making numerous trips to Central ... |
daughter) rewrote the original books and added new titles after the withdrawal of Benson. Other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included Leslie McFarlane, James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Patricia Doll, Charles S. Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr.,... | stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. In addition, the Keene pen name is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, ''River Heights, and the Nancy Drew Notebooks. Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Syndicate, hired writers, beginning with Mildred Wirt, later Mildred Wirt Benson, to write the manuscripts ... |
were supplied by airlifts of the British Force 136. Politics Politically, the Maquis included socialists, communists, and anarchists. Some Maquis bands that operated in southwest France were composed entirely of left-wing Spanish veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Spanish Civil War veteran Carlos Romero Giménez was a c... | forces and their garrisons en masse. For example, Nancy Wake's group of 7,000 maquisards was involved in a pitched battle with 22,000 Germans on June 20, 1944. Some Maquis groups took no prisoners so some German soldiers preferred to surrender to Allied soldiers rather than maquisards. The Allied offensive was slowed a... |
All Stratemeyer Syndicate books were written under certain guidelines, based on practices Stratemeyer began with his first series, the Rover Boys. All books would be part of a series. To establish more quickly if a series was likely to be successful, the first several volumes would be published at once. These first vol... | a time when most children's books were aimed at moral instruction, the Stratemeyer Syndicate specialized in producing books that were meant primarily to be entertaining. In Stratemeyer's view, it was the thrill of feeling grown-up and the desire for a series of stories that made such reading attractive to children. Str... |
more than carbon dioxide By converting cow manure into methane biogas via anaerobic digestion, the millions of cattle in the United States would be able to produce 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power millions of homes across the United States. In fact, one cow can produce enough manure in one day... | go through a cleaning process, and becomes biomethane. If the local gas network allows, the producer of the biogas may use their distribution networks. Gas must be very clean to reach pipeline quality and must be of the correct composition for the distribution network to accept. Carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen sulfide,... |
to harmful algal blooms (HABs). Such blooms can occur naturally, but there is good evidence that these are increasing as a result of nutrient enrichment, although the causal linkage between nutrient enrichment and HABs is not straightforward. Oxygen depletion has existed in some coastal seas such as the Baltic for thou... | the open ocean, via mixing of relatively nutrient rich deep ocean waters. Nutrient inputs from the ocean are little changed by human activity, although climate change may alter the water flows across the shelf break. By contrast, inputs from land to coastal zones of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus have been incre... |
of robbery was abolished for all purposes not relating to offences committed before 1 January 1969 by section 32(1)(a) of the Theft Act 1968. Statute See sections 40 to 43 of the Larceny Act 1861. Section 23 of the Larceny Act 1916 read: This section provided maximum penalties for a number of offences of robbery and ag... | timing; it was held that the appropriation necessary to prove theft was a continuing act, and the jury could correctly convict of robbery. This approach was followed in R v Lockley (1995) when the force was applied to a shopkeeper after property had been taken. It was argued that the theft should be regarded as complet... |
was named after the Savoy Hotel in London as those who named the ballroom felt this gave the ballroom a classy, upscale feeling, as the hotel is a very elite, upscale hotel. The Savoy was popular from the start. A headline from the New York Age March 20, 1926, reads "Savoy Turns 2,000 Away On Opening Night – Crowds Pac... | Records released at least one album devoted to the club, The Home of Happy Feet, from 1959. It is estimated that the ballroom generated $250,000 in annual profit in its peak years from the late 1920s to the 1940s. Every year the ballroom was visited by almost 700,000 people. The entrance fee was 30 to 85 cents per pers... |
1,042 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2019, compared to the boroughwide average of 632 crimes per 100,000 and the citywide average of 572 crimes per 100,000. , Community District 10 has a non-fatal assault hospitalization rate of 116 per 100,000 people, compared to the boroughwide rate of 49 per 100,000 and the citywid... | the Harlem River and East River to the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington Heights, and an uneven boundary along the south that runs along 96th Street east of Fifth Avenue, 110th Street between Fifth Avenue to Morningside Park, and 125th Street west of... |
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Prime Minister's official residence is 10 Downing Street; the Chancellor's official residence is Number 11. The government's Chief Whip has an official residence at Number 12. In practice, the individuals involved may live in different flats; the current Chief Whip actually lives... | and Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 11 Downing Street has been the official residence of the Second Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1828. The residence was built alongside the official residence of the Prime Minister at Number 10 in 1682. 12 Downing Street, formerly the Chief Whip's Offi... |
of Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, and many other drinks Cola, any soft drink similar to Coca-Cola Generic name for a soft drink Other substances Cocaine, an illicit drug derived from the coca plant Coke (fuel), a solid carbonaceous residue derived from destructive distillation of coal Petroleum coke, a solid, carbon-rich re... | coal Petroleum coke, a solid, carbon-rich residue derived from distillation of crude oil People Coke (surname), a list of people Koch (surname), a variant of the surname, may also be pronounced "coke" Coke (footballer) (b. 1987), real name Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer Coke Escovedo (1941–1986), American per... |
and Catholic mayors. No woman has ever served as mayor of New York City. Colonial mayors Before 1680, mayors served one-year terms. From 1680, they served two-year terms. Exceptions are noted thus (*). A dagger (†) indicates mayoralties cut short by death in office. (When the same man served more than one continuous te... | a Hispanic or Latino mayor, with the possible exception of John Purroy Mitchel (1914–1917), who was of Spanish descent and whose grandfather was born in Venezuela. New York City's mayors have been religiously diverse; the city has had Protestant, Jewish and Catholic mayors. No woman has ever served as mayor of New York... |
and television broadcaster Peter Murphy (musician) (born 1957), British musician with the band Bauhaus Peter Murphy (artist) (born 1959), English Stuckist artist Politics and law Peter P. Murphy (1801–1880), American politician, New York state senator Peter Murphy (businessman) (1853–1925), Australian politician Peter ... | league footballer Peter Murphy (hurler) (born 1961), Irish hurler Peter Murphy (rower) (born 1967), Australian Olympic rower Peter Murphy (footballer, born 1980), Irish international footballer with Ayr United Peter Murphy (footballer, born 1990), English footballer with Wycombe Wanderers Others Peter William Murphy (d... |
is recognized by several systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, the Engler system, in its update | Its circumscription is typically: order Plumbaginales family Plumbaginaceae Cronquist placed this order in his subclass Caryophyllidae of three orders. Historically recognized angiosperm |
such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose". Biography Razaf was born in Washington, D.C., United States. His birth name was Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen Ranavalona III of the Imerina kingdom in Madagascar, and Jennie Razafinkarefo (n... | collaborated with composers Eubie Blake, Don Redman, James P. Johnson, Harry Brooks, and Fats Waller. Among the best-known Razaf-Waller collaborations are "Ain't Misbehavin'", "Honeysuckle Rose", "The Joint Is Jumpin'", "Willow Tree", "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" and "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue". His musi... |
residing on the plains of Manchuria, the Dingling, who originally dwelt on the banks of Lake Baikal and had already commenced trekking south into the steppes before Duo Xian destroyed the Northern Xiongnu, and the Wuhuan, who lived south of the Xianbei and were the weakest of the four. Instead of constantly trading for... | popular. In return those herdsmen helped defend the Han dynasty against any remaining Xiongnu. The more they engaged in commerce with the Chinese, the more they preferred to stay near China's border, to facilitate trade, instead of residing on the steppes of Manchuria and Mongolia. Some groups of non-Xiongnu herdsmen e... |
king at the Stones of Mora (Mora stenar). In 1276, Magnus allegedly married a second wife Helwig, daughter of Gerard I of Holstein. Through her mother, Elizabeth of Mecklenburg, Helwig was a descendant of Christina, the putative daughter of King Sverker II. A papal annulment of Magnus' alleged first marriage and a disp... | in modern times, was probably the second son of Birger Jarl (1200–66) and Princess Ingeborg, herself the sister of the childless King Eric XI and daughter of King Eric X. Thus, Valdemar Birgersson (1239–1302) was the eldest son and ruled as Valdemar, King of Sweden from 1250–1275, succeeding King Eric, their maternal u... |
a Spanish munitions factory. He was successful in all three objectives, mainly because his initiation of an amorous relationship with Pilar de Muguiro y Beruete opened many doors for him. Pilar's father, influential banker Fermín Muguiro, Count of Muguiro, was a close friend of the King, and leader of Spanish Conservat... | problems of the faulty propulsion system, they were also chronically unstable. One of the Turkish Navy's submarines sank, capsizing during a torpedo firing test. The vessel reared in a vertical position, from which it sank by the stern. At this time Spanish inventor Isaac Peral designed and built the first submarine ca... |
Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, the third-largest city in British Columbia. As the longest-serving British Columbia MP of his time, in office from 1979 to 2004, Robinson is notable for having been the first Canadian MP to come out as gay, in the spring of 1988. He was the only openly LGBT member of the C... | Ada Yovanovich. Robinson ran to succeed Audrey McLaughlin as leader of the NDP at the 1995 NDP leadership convention. He won the first ballot, and had won regional primaries in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. However, he felt that he could not win on the second ballot as last-place candidate Lorne Nystrom's dele... |
the process of DNA replication. The "end replication problem" is exclusive to linear chromosomes as circular chromosomes do not have ends lying without reach of DNA-polymerases. Most prokaryotes, relying on circular chromosomes, accordingly do not possess telomeres. A small fraction of bacterial chromosomes (such as th... | stem cells such as embryonic stem cells, and certain white blood cells. Telomerase can be reactivated and telomeres reset back to an embryonic state by somatic cell nuclear transfer. The steady shortening of telomeres with each replication in somatic (body) cells may have a role in senescence and in the prevention of c... |
Preparation and serving Either a or cut may be used; the meat is usually salted, peppered, dredged lightly in flour, dipped into beaten egg and then coated with panko (bread crumbs) before being deep fried. Tonkatsu is then sliced into bits and served with shredded cabbage. It is most commonly eaten with a type of thic... | of tonkatsu sauce. Variations In Nagoya and surrounding areas, miso katsu, tonkatsu eaten with a hatchō miso-based sauce, is a speciality. Variations on tonkatsu may be made by sandwiching an ingredient such as cheese or shiso leaf between the meat, and then breading and frying. For the calorie conscious, konnyaku is s... |
many aspects of quantum field theories and mathematical physics, including the physics and mathematics of anomalies, integrability, dualities, localization, and homologies. Many of his results have deeply influenced areas in theoretical physics (often well beyond the original context of his results), including string t... | theorem in general relativity. He is considered the practical founder of M-theory. Early life and education Witten was born on August 26, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Lorraine (née Wollach) Witten and Louis Witten, a theoretical physicist specializing in gravitation and general rel... |
Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea. The Dardani ally with Pontus and are defeated by Sulla soon after. Births October 1 – Sallust, Roman historian (d. 34 BC) Fausta Cornelia, twin sister of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, wife of Gaius Memmius and later of Titus Annius Milo Faustus Cornelius Sulla, Roman senator, son of the... | army, removing the tyrant Aristion. Lucius Licinius Lucullus decisively defeats the Mithridatic fleet in the Battle of Tenedos. The Roman forces of Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeat the Pontic forces of Archelaus in the Battle of Chaeronea. The Dardani ally with Pontus and are defeated by Sulla soon after. Births October 1... |
was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cinna and Carbo (or, less frequently, year 669 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 85 BC for this year has been used | and mother of Augustus (d. 43 BC) Marcus Junius Brutus, conspirator and assassin in the murder of Julius Caesar (approximate date) Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman politician and father of Tiberius (d. 33 BC) Deaths Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman politician (b. |
decisively defeats the Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan. Roman Republic The First Mithridatic War comes to an end. Births Catullus, Roman poet (approximate date) (d. c. 54 BC) Servilius Casca, Roman politician (d. c. 42 BC) Surena, Parthian general (d. 53 BC) ... | Roman Republic The First Mithridatic War comes to an end. Births Catullus, Roman poet (approximate date) (d. c. 54 BC) Servilius Casca, Roman politician (d. c. 42 BC) Surena, Parthian general (d. 53 BC) Deaths Apellicon of Teos, Greek book collector (approximate date) Gaius Flavius Fimbria, Roman politician and general |
Consulship of Asiaticus and Norbanus (or, less frequently, year 671 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 83 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 Spring – Lucius Cornelius Sul... | Tifata. Gnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises, on his own initiative, a private army of three legions from his father's veterans and in Picenum. Lucius Licinius Murena, the Roman governor of Asia, clashes with the Pontic forces of Mithridates VI, starting the Second Mithridatic War. A fire breaks out which burns down the Tem... |
Sulla in the east. After his campaigns in Sicily and Africa, Pompeius gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the "teenage butcher". Lucius Licinius Murena launches a raid against Pontus in the Battle of Halys, starting the Second Mithridatic War. Dacia Burebista unifies the Dacian population forming th... | city of Praeneste in Latium. After a fierce resistance, Marius commits suicide. Pompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in Sicily and Africa, while the young Gaius Julius Caesar is acting as a subordinate of Sulla in the east. After his campaigns in Sicily and Africa, Pompeius gets the insulting nickname ... |
Year of the Consulship of Decula and Dolabella (or, less frequently, year 673 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 81 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent | 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 Sulla is appointed dictator, executes his political enemies in a series of proscriptions, and implements aristocratic reforms to the Roman gov... |
place Roman Republic Quintus Sertorius re-enters Iberia with a tiny army (2,600 men) and opens a successful campaign against the Sullan forces. Battle of the Baetis River: A force of Populares exiles under Sertorius defeat the legal Roman army of Lucius Fulfidias in Hispania, starting the Sertorian War; Quintus Caecili... | (or, less frequently, year 674 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 80 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 Quintus Sertorius re-enters Iberia with a tiny army (2,600 men) an... |
toxicity. Nevertheless, after the war they slowly became more common in civil aviation as well. In the 1960s, fluoroalkanes and bromofluoroalkanes became available and were quickly recognized as being highly effective fire-fighting materials. Much early research with Halon 1301 was conducted under the auspices of the U... | the US Armed Forces, while Halon 1211 was, initially, mainly developed in the UK. By the late 1960s they were standard in many applications where water and dry-powder extinguishers posed a threat of damage to the protected property, including computer rooms, telecommunications switches, laboratories, museums and art co... |
dew has been found to account for almost half of the water found in three dominant desert species, Salsola inermis, Artemisia sieberi and Haloxylon scoparium. Another effect of dew is its hydration of fungal substrates and the mycelia of species such as Pleated Inkcaps on lawns and Phytophthora infestans which causes b... | typically warmer at night. Preferred objects of dew formation are thus poor conducting or well isolated from the ground, and non-metallic, while shiny metal coated surfaces are poor infrared radiators. Preferred weather conditions include the absence of clouds and little water vapor in the higher atmosphere to minimize... |
over it. The temperature at which dew forms is, by definition, the dew point. Manual devices of this sort can be used to calibrate other types of humidity sensors, and automatic sensors may be used in a control loop with a humidifier or dehumidifier to control the dew point of the air in a building or in a smaller spac... | carburetor icing and fog, and to estimate the height of a cumuliform cloud base. Increasing the barometric pressure increases the dew point. This means that, if the pressure increases, the mass of water vapor per volume unit of air must be reduced in order to maintain the same dew point. For example, consider New York ... |
Up to the beginning of 1968, cockfights used to be held everywhere in the country, but with the purpose of stopping the bets, the arenas were closed and the fights forbidden by the authorities. In 1980, authorities legalized cockfights again and a state business organization was created with the participation of the pr... | almost two and a half inches long. In the highest levels of 17th century English cockfighting, the spikes were made of silver. The sharp spurs have been known to injure or even kill the bird handlers. In the naked heel variation, the bird's natural spurs are left intact and sharpened: fighting is done without gaffs or ... |
burger restaurant chain, present in every province. Oceania Australia Australia's fast food market began in 1968, with the opening of several American franchises including McDonald's and KFC. Pizza Hut was introduced in April 1970, and Burger King followed. However, the Burger King market found that this name was alrea... | operation, the partners discovered that the design of the insta-broiler made the unit's heating elements prone to degradation from the drippings of the beef patties. The pair eventually created a mechanized gas grill that avoided the problems by changing the way the meat patties were cooked in the unit. After the origi... |
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. The Cardonald Stewarts had their seat at the Place of Cardonald (also known as Cardonald Castle or Cardonald House), built in 1565. It was demolished and replaced by a farmhouse – Cardonald Place Farm – in 1848. A corn mill existed in Cardonald from around 1789 until it was demolished ... | the area, The Westway (1934-1960) and the Aldwych/Vogue (1938-1964). The Westway later became the Flamingo ballroom, and was then a bingo hall until its demolition in 2003. The Vogue was demolished in 1964 and replaced by a supermarket. In the 1950s, the Corporation erected the UK's first high-rise flats in the area. A... |
in Chicken Run Ginger, a character in the Disney Fairies books Ginger, a character on Phineas and Ferb Ginger, a character on The Simpsons Ginger, a character on The West Wing Ginger Grant, a character on Gilligan's Island Film Ginger (1935 film), an American comedy film Ginger, a 1946 Monogram film by Oliver Drake Gin... | Wing Ginger Grant, a character on Gilligan's Island Film Ginger (1935 film), an American comedy film Ginger, a 1946 Monogram film by Oliver Drake Ginger (2013 film), an Indian film Literature Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin, a 1990 book by Susan Mayse Ginger (book), a children's picture book by Charlotte V... |
carried by Austronesian voyagers into Madagascar and the Comoros in the 1st millennium CE. From India, it was carried by traders into the Middle East and the Mediterranean by around the 1st century CE. It was primarily grown in southern India and the Greater Sunda Islands during the spice trade, along with peppers, clo... | from Old French gingibre (modern French gingembre). Origin and distribution Ginger originated from Maritime Southeast Asia. It is a true cultigen and does not exist in its wild state. The most ancient evidence of its domestication is among the Austronesian peoples where it was among several species of ginger cultivated... |
material. The temperature of the gases leaving the vent ranges from about . The steam forms when groundwater is superheated by hot rock, then boils as it approaches the surface. In addition to steam, gases released by fumaroles include carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen flu... | down within a few days or weeks of the end of an eruption, but a few are persistent, lasting for decades or longer. An area containing fumaroles is known as a fumarole field. The predominant vapor emitted by fumaroles is steam, formed by the circulation of groundwater through heated rock. This is typically accompanied ... |
ring determined to kill Tintin. Before he can reveal who the boss is, he is injected with Rajaijah juice, "the poison of madness", by the fakir. Meeting the Maharaja of Gaipajama, the two become friends, with the Maharaja revealing that his family has long been fighting a criminal opium-smuggling gang, and in the proce... | but was encouraged to stay after his workload was reduced and his monthly salary was increased from 2000 to 3000 francs. Jamin subsequently took over Hergé's responsibility for the day-to-day running of Le Petit Vingtième. Second version, 1955 In the 1940s and 1950s, when Hergé's popularity had increased, he and his te... |
was a commercial success and was published in book form by Casterman shortly after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with Land of Black Gold until forced closure in 1940, while the series itself became a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1947, Hergé coloured and redrew King... | Tintin a Knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican; the first foreigner to receive the honour. Tintin later learns that the imposter was Alembick's twin brother while police arrest Müsstler and rescue Professor Alembick. History Background King Ottokar's Sceptre was not the first Tintin adventure to draw specifically o... |
Sea coast and board a sambuk for Mecca, but are attacked by fighter planes. Tintin shoots one down and rescues its mercenary Estonian pilot, Piotr Skut. The four are picked up by di Gorgonzola's yacht, the Scheherazade, but are soon offloaded onto the SS Ramona, a tramp steamer. Di Gorgonzola, it turns out, is another ... | a frogman, whose depiction was drawn from a press clipping of Lionel Crabb. His depiction of the Emir's hideaway palace cut from the rock was based on the Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan, which he had seen in an issue of National Geographic. Hergé's growing interest in art was reflected in the story, as he included a copy ... |
have distributed their wealth to the poor. In his most famous exploit, which is first attested in Michael the Archimandrite's Life of Saint Nicholas, Nicholas heard of a devout man who had once been wealthy but had lost all of his money due to the "plotting and envy of Satan." The man could not afford proper dowries fo... | it "has no historical value." Jona Lendering defends the historicity of the incident, arguing that, because it was embarrassing and reflects poorly on Nicholas's reputation, it is inexplicable why later hagiographers would have made it up. Later versions of the legend embellish it, making the heretic Arius himself and ... |
"Gdańsk gold water"), with Goldwasser as the registered tradename, is a strong (40% ABV) root and herbal liqueur which was produced from 1598 to 2009 in Danzig (Gdańsk). Production now again takes place in Germany. The most prominent characteristic of the drink is small flakes of 23 karat gold suspended in it. The beve... | in the Breitgasse. At that time it was common for houses to use animal symbols instead of numbers, and the new factory featured a salmon () on the façade; hence the naming of the brand "Der Lachs zu Danzig". During his trip to Western Europe — the so-called Grand Embassy — Russian Tsar Peter I the Great visited the cit... |
confronts anthropologists with two problems: first, how to escape the unconscious bonds of one's own culture, which inevitably bias our perceptions of and reactions to the world, and second, how to make sense of an unfamiliar culture. The principle of cultural relativism thus forced anthropologists to develop innovativ... | understood; philosopher John Cook observed that "It is aimed at getting people to admit that although it may seem to them that their moral principles are self-evidently true, and hence seem to be grounds for passing judgement on other peoples, in fact, the self-evidence of these principles is a kind of illusion." Altho... |
and blasphemy laws is closest when the laws apply to only one religion. In Pakistan blasphemy directed against either the tenets of the Qur'an or the Prophet Mohammed is punishable by either life imprisonment or death. Apostasy, the rejection of one's old religion, is also criminalized in a number of countries, notably... | of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the United Kingdom), makes restricting the rights of an individual to practice or change their religion illegal in article 9, and discrimination on the basis of religion illegal in article 14. In its 2000 annual report on international religious freedom, the U.S. State Department cited C... |
although the Wettstein system preferred the name Diospyrales'. In the 1981 version of the Cronquist system it was an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae with the following circumscription: order Ebenales family Ebenaceae family Sapotaceae family Styracaceae family Symplocaceae In the APG II | This order was recognized in several systems, for example the Bentham & Hooker system and the Engler system, although the Wettstein |
by researchers to codify differences between these subgenres, in practice these terms are used interchangeably. Kazumi Nagaike and Tomoko Aoyama note that while BL and yaoi are the most common generic terms for this kind of media, they specifically avoid attempts at defining subgenres, noting that the differences betwe... | June in 1978 and Allan in 1980. Both magazines initially specialized in shōnen-ai, which the publisher described as "halfway between tanbi literature and pornography," and also published articles on homosexuality, literary fiction, illustrations, and amateur yaoi works. The success of June was such that the term June-m... |
system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae. This order included only the | by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae. This order included only the family Lecythidaceae, |
Italian-language imprecation), "Salvador de los Vírgenes Borrachos" (Spanish: "Savior of Drunken Virgins"), or "Sieur de Fracasse et Brise-tout" (French: "Lord of 'Knock it down' and 'Break everything'"). Variants The French coined characters like Boudoufle (Norman French: "Puffed up with hurt pride"), Taille-bras (eit... | wobbly to wield properly. Even if he cut somebody with it, he would faint at the very sight of the blood. Noms de guerre Il Capitano usually has a properly showy name for himself, preferably several lines long and followed by many made-up titles and lists of relations. Some names are fierce-sounding, like "Escobombardo... |
the software. There is no scope for error in the production of these views. The main scope for error comes in setting the parameter of first or third angle projection and displaying the relevant symbol on the technical drawing. 3D CAD allows individual parts to be assembled together to represent the final product. Buil... | released for manufacture. Both 2D and 3D CAD systems can be used to produce technical drawings for any discipline. The various disciplines (electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, etc.) have industry recognized symbols to represent common components. BS and ISO produce standards to show recommended practices but ... |
reality a puppet ruler raised to power by Ricimer, the magister militum of Germanic descent, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad. Biography Family and early career Olybrius was born in Rome, in the ancient and powerful gens Anicia, of Italian descent... | the vacant Western throne because Gaiseric's son Huneric and Olybrius had married the two daughters of Valentinian III, and with Olybrius on the throne, Gaiseric could exert great influence on the Western Empire. Therefore, Gaiseric freed Licinia Eudoxia (fulfilling Daniel's prophesy) and her daughter Placidia (Olybriu... |
some earlier serialized drama including, the six episode The Shadow of the Swastika (1939), Dorothy L. Sayers's The Man Born To Be King, in twelve episodes (1941), and Front Line Family (1941–48), which was broadcast to America as part of the effort to encourage the US to enter the war. The show's storylines depicted t... | "twice as many plays as London's West End" and were producing over 400 plays a year by the mid-1940s. Producers of radio drama soon became aware that adapting stage plays for radio did not always work, and that there was a need for plays specifically written for radio, which recognized its potential as a distinct and d... |
standardizing the colors, different manufacturers in different locations can all refer to the Pantone system to make sure colors match without direct contact with one another. One such use is standardizing colors in the CMYK process. The CMYK process is a method of printing color by using four inks—cyan, magenta, yello... | In addition to the standard swatch books (now called the GoeGuide), the new system also included adhesive-backed GoeSticks, interactive software, tools, and an online community where users were able to share color swatches and information. The Goe system was streamlined to use fewer base colors (ten, plus clear coating... |
thought profoundly in Europe and America. In France, the book met with an unfriendly reception from both supporters and opponents of the regime. The Catholic Church banned The Spirit—along with many of Montesquieu's other works—in 1751 and included it on the Index of Prohibited Books. It received the highest praise fro... | living in Paris, and in 1726 he sold his office due to his resentment that his intellectual inferiors rose higher than him in court and received a fortune, thus reestablishing his dwindled asset. Eventually he made some concessions, including a residence in Paris, and was accepted into the Académie in January 1728. In ... |
end. In addition to the Younger, Older, and Oldest Dryases, a century-long period of colder climate, similar to the Younger Dryas in abruptness, has occurred within both the Bølling oscillation and the Allerød oscillation interstadials. The cold period that occurred within the Bølling oscillation is known as the intra-... | years ago, occurring at 10,000 BP (uncalibrated radiocarbon year), a "radiocarbon plateau" by a variety of methods, mostly with consistent results: The International Commission on Stratigraphy put the start of the Greenlandian stage, and implicitly the end of the Younger Dryas, at 11,700 years before 2000. Although the... |
in Town", "Sweet and Low", "Truckin'", "Rhythm and Romance", "Sing an Old Fashioned Song to a Young Sophisticated Lady", "West Wind", "All My Life", "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie", "Let's Sing Again", "Cross Patch", "You're Not the Kind", "Bye Bye Baby", "You're Laughing at Me", "I Love to Whistle", "Good for Nothing", "Tw... | "Blue Turning Grey Over You", "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" (1929), "Honeysuckle Rose" (1929) and "Jitterbug Waltz" (1942). He composed stride piano display pieces such as "Handful of Keys", "Valentine Stomp" and "Viper's Drag". He enjoyed success touring the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1930s, appearing on one... |
enslaved Africans revolted against their captors or participated in mass maroonage or desertion. The freed Africans founded communities in the forests and mountains, organized guerrilla bands known as Cimarrones. They began a long guerrilla war against the Spanish Conquistadores, sometimes in conjunction with nearby in... | as the uprisings of Ivan Bolotnikov (1606–1607), Stenka Razin (1667–1671), Kondraty Bulavin (1707–1709), and Yemelyan Pugachev (1773–1775), often involving hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions. Between the end of the Pugachev rebellion and the beginning of the 19th century, there were hundreds of outbreaks acro... |
non-dealing player takes the upcard, they must then discard a different card to the discard pile. The player acting second can take the top card from the pile of their choice. However, if the non-dealing player passes the upcard, the dealer is given the opportunity to take the upcard or pass. If the dealer also passes,... | the upcard, they must then discard a different card to the discard pile. The player acting second can take the top card from the pile of their choice. However, if the non-dealing player passes the upcard, the dealer is given the opportunity to take the upcard or pass. If the dealer also passes, the non-dealing player m... |
hazards and environmental protection. In exploration geophysics, geophysical survey data are used to analyze potential petroleum reservoirs and mineral deposits, locate groundwater, find archaeological relics, determine the thickness of glaciers and soils, and assess sites for environmental remediation. Physical phenom... | by mantle plumes. The heat flow at the Earth's surface is about , and it is a potential source of geothermal energy. Vibrations Seismic waves are vibrations that travel through the Earth's interior or along its surface. The entire Earth can also oscillate in forms that are called normal modes or free oscillations of th... |
may refer to: Science, technology and engineering Molding (process), the process of manufacturing by shaping the material using a rigid frame Melting, the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid Welding, a fabrication process that joins materials by fusion Meld (software), a computer program for viewin... | liquid Welding, a fabrication process that joins materials by fusion Meld (software), a computer program for viewing the differences between files Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, a scoring system Meld, a British Rail Class 55 locomotive Arts and entertainment Meld (cards), a set of matching |
converted to a gunboat in 1861 CSS Savannah (ironclad), an ironclad ram launched in 1863 NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered merchant ship USS Savannah (AOR-4), a US Navy Wichita-class replenishment oiler USS Savannah (CL-42), a US Navy Brooklyn-class light cruiser Other uses Tropical savanna climate, climate type character... | (CDP), New York, a hamlet and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York Savannah, North Carolina Savannah, Ohio Savannah Town, South Carolina, a historic settlement near Augusta, Georgia Savannah, Tennessee Savannah, Texas Ships SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, in 1819 CSS Savannah ... |
soda Sodium hydroxide, caustic soda Sodium oxide, an alkali metal oxide Soda glass, a common glass made with sodium carbonate or sodium oxide Soda lake, an alternate generic name for a salt lake, with high concentration of sodium carbonates Soda lime, a mixture of sodium, calcium, and potassium hydroxides Soda pulping,... | show "Go For Soda", a song by Canadian singer Kim Mitchell Soda (comics), a popular Belgian comics series by Philippe Tome and Bruno Gazzotti Soda Drinker Pro, a video game that simulates the act of drinking soda SODA Off-Road Racing, a 1997 video game Soda (TV series), a French television show Soda Pictures, a UK film... |
will capture and eat garden snails, and because of this it has sometimes been introduced as a biological pest control agent. However, this is not without problems, as the decollate snail is just as likely to attack and devour other gastropods that may represent a valuable part of the native fauna of the region. As food... | greater biomass. Numerous kinds of snail can also be found in fresh water. Most snails have thousands of microscopic tooth-like structures located on a banded ribbon-like tongue called a radula. The radula works like a file, ripping food into small pieces. Many snails are herbivorous, eating plants or rasping algae fro... |
the Qing government would be charged an annual interest rate of 4 percent for the money that was not paid in a timely manner (Article VII). The Qing government undertook to release all British prisoners of war (Article VIII), and to give a general amnesty to all Chinese subjects who had cooperated with the British duri... | of". Pottinger sent this old draft treaty on shore, with the letter s struck out of islands and the words Hong Kong placed after it. Robert Montgomery Martin, treasurer of Hong Kong, wrote in an official report: The terms of peace having been read, Elepoo the senior commissioner paused, expecting something more, and at... |
the label's first release in 1980. The label then released Double Fantasy by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Two weeks after it entered the charts, Lennon was murdered in New York City. Subsequently, the album went on to sell millions and gave Geffen its first number-one album and single; the rights to the album would later ... | Dogg, Rob Zombie, Gryffin, and Yeat. History Geffen Records began operations in 1980, having been started by music industry businessman David Geffen who, in the early 1970s, had founded Asylum Records. Geffen stepped down from Asylum in 1975, when he crossed over to film and was named a vice president of Warner Bros. P... |
the following: Places United States Waldwick, New Jersey Waldwick High School Waldwick (NJT station) Waldwick Public School | Places United States Waldwick, New Jersey Waldwick High School Waldwick |
and is continuing at about 2 millimeters per year, which is greater than the rate of denudation. The cause of the uplift is unknown, but geologists theorize that it is caused by a hot spot in the earth's crust. A recent study has revealed a column of seismically slow materials about 50–80 km deep beneath the Adirondack... | with the rise of the Romantic movement, and the Adirondacks became a destination for those wishing to escape the evils of city life. Rising concern over water quality and deforestation led to the creation of the Adirondack Park in 1885. In 1989, part of the Adirondack region was designated by UNESCO as the Champlain-Ad... |
appearing in the most theatrical films in the 1990s, with 29 films grossing $1.3 billion in the U.S. and Canada. 2000s Goldberg hosted the documentary short The Making of A Charlie Brown Christmas (2001). In 2003, she returned to television in Whoopi, which was canceled after one season. On her 46th birthday, she was h... | the lead role in his film The Color Purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker. It was released in late 1985 and was a critical and commercial success. Film critic Roger Ebert described Goldberg's performance as "one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history." It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, inclu... |
members of an organization or of their representatives House of Assembly, a name given to the legislature or lower house of a bicameral legislature National Assembly, either a legislature or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries National Assembly (disambiguation) Popular assembly, a localized cit... | and entertainment Assemble (collective), a London-based collective active in art, architecture and design Assembly (events promoter), one of the main programmers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Assembly (film), a 2007 Chinese war drama Assembly (TV series), a 2015 television series Music Assemble (album), an album by ... |
Gill House", "Herne the Hunter", an untitled track known as "Scott's Porridge", and "Alice". The second version has an instrumental version of "Alice" in place of "Scott's Porridge". All tracks are instrumental apart from "Alice", with vocals by Doug Irvine. The summer demo has three tracks; "Close" (parts of which wer... | of the deal, this was to be the third and final album distributed on the Castle label. The Dot Com tour, again with dates only in the UK and mainland Europe, started on 13 October at the MCM Cafe in Paris, and ended with a special Christmas show for the Web fanclubs worldwide in Aachen, Germany on 5 December 1999. For ... |
In the Pirquet version of the test tuberculin is applied to the skin via scarification. Classification of tuberculin reaction The results of this test must be interpreted carefully. The person's medical risk factors determine at which increment (5 mm, 10 mm, or 15 mm) of induration the result is considered positive. A ... | result in a larger number of people being falsely diagnosed with latent tuberculosis, while the UK approach has an increased chance of missing patients with latent tuberculosis who should be treated. According to the US guidelines, latent tuberculosis infection diagnosis and treatment is considered for any BCG-vaccinat... |
An earlier description was made in 1887 by British physician John Langdon Down. Signs and symptoms PWS symptoms can range from poor muscle tone during infancy to behavioral problems in early childhood. Some symptoms usually found in infants, besides poor muscle tone, are a lack of eye coordination, some are born with a... | deficiency. Specifically, individuals with PWS have short stature, are obese with abnormal body composition, have reduced fat-free mass, have reduced lean body mass and total energy expenditure, and have decreased bone density. PWS is characterized by hypogonadism. This is manifested as undescended testes in males and ... |
MacCoinnich) Sgaothaich from sgaoth "swarm", plus the derivational suffix -ach (plural -aich) However, this proposal to date has not been met with any response in mainstream place-name studies. Pope Leo X (1513–1521) decreed that the use of the name Scotia be confined to referring to land that is now Scotland. Virtuall... | of saying "Land of the Gaels" (compare Angli and Anglia; Franci and Francia; Romani and Romania; etc). It was originally used as a name for Ireland, for example in Adomnán's Life of Columba, and when Isidore of Seville in 580 CE writes "Scotia and Hibernia are the same country" (Isidore, lib. xii. c. 6), the connotatio... |
it fend off Glencore's takeover interest. In January 2017, Archer Daniels Midland agreed to sell its crop risk services (insurance) unit to Validus Holdings for $127.5 million. On January 19, 2018, it was reported that Archer Daniels Midland had approached Bunge Ltd. about a takeover, with details "unclear." At that po... | Antwerp by Edouard Bunge in 1859. Edouard's brother; Ernest Bunge, took the Bunge name to Argentina in 1884, and in 1905 the business extended to Brazil and later on to the United States. The company was converted into the Bermuda-registered Bunge International in 1994, retaining the Bunge y Born name only in Argentina... |
both Adams and his daughter and escape the invisible monster stalking them. The film sets for Forbidden Planet were constructed on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) sound stage at its Culver City film lot and were designed by Cedric Gibbons and Arthur Lonergan. The film was shot entirely indoors, with all the Altair IV exter... | They embrace as the ship departs to return to Earth. Cast Production The screenplay by Irving Block and Allen Adler, written in 1952, was originally titled Fatal Planet. The later screenplay draft by Cyril Hume renamed the film Forbidden Planet, because this was believed to have greater box-office appeal. Block and Adl... |
Canadiens The internal communications of the British colonial government at Quebec suggest a relative failure of the purpose of the Quebec Act. On 4 February 1775, Governor Guy Carleton wrote to General Thomas Gage that he believed the Canadiens to be generally happy with the act, yet he also added: ... I must not howe... | an oath to the King that contained specific provisions rejecting the Catholic faith. Given that many of the predominantly Roman Catholic Canadiens were unwilling to take such an oath, this effectively prevented large numbers of Canadiens from participating in the local governments. With unrest (which would one day grow... |
restored historical bodies of government or representation of the previous kingdoms or regional entities within the Spanish Crown—like the Generalitat of Catalonia—while others are entirely new creations. In some, both the executive and the legislature, though constituting two separate institutions, are collectively id... | of government", a president of such a council, elected by the Assembly, and a High Court of Justice. They were also granted a maximum level of devolved competencies. The "slow route" or "slow track", also called the "norm", was established in article 143. This route could be taken—via the first transitory disposition—b... |
guitarist Tito Larriva, lead guitarist Peter Atanasoff, and drummer Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez. This album featured the debut of lead guitarist Steven Hufsteter – who had previously played with Larriva in the Cruzados, bassist Io Perry, and keyboardist Marcus Praed. The band toured promoting the album for several years. ... | his own video for the song using the eight dollars he had in his pocket. In the last 40 seconds of the song "Effortless", Larriva, Atanasoff, and Perry can be heard laughing while they watch the "California Girl" music video. The song "La Flor De Mal" is a cover of a Cruzados song that Larriva and Hufsteter wrote when ... |
overwhelm the Imperial Japanese Navy, and then delay the Japanese advance into Manchuria until Russian reinforcements could arrive via the Trans-Siberian railroad and overwhelm the Japanese land forces in Manchuria. As the situation in the Far East deteriorated, the Tsar (encouraged by his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II), ag... | Islands. Prelude Because of the journey, the Russian fleet was in relatively poor condition for battle. Apart from the four newest s, Admiral Nebogatov's 3rd Division consisted of older and poorly maintained warships. Overall neither side had a significant maneuverability advantage. The long voyage, combined with a lac... |
Dedicated to preserving the culture of the Natives in New Hampshire, the group is one of the chief supporters of the HB 1610; the Abenaki, the main tribe in the state, are the only people named specifically in the bill. In 2021, a bill was introduced to the New Hampshire legislature to allow New Hampshire communities t... | fact that Vermont Abenaki heavily distanced themselves from their Canadian brethren, causing them to fall away from their tribes. Because of this, it was believed for a long time that there were no more Abenaki in Vermont. However, scholarly sources and oral histories remind that due to the period of eugenics surveys i... |
2005 to 2008, and once again in 2019. History Daniel Ash, his friend David J. Haskins, and Haskins' younger brother Kevin, had played together in various bands since childhood. Ash initially tried to convince his school friend Peter Murphy to be in a band, but nothing came out of it. According to Ash: "Pete didn’t thin... | finish it, really". The same year, David J commented on the breakup: "You have a test tube, and you pour in one chemical, and you pour in another chemical, and something happens. It starts to bubble. Pour in another chemical, and it starts to bubble a bit more. You pour in a fourth chemical, and it bubbles really viole... |
In 2012, Empire voted it number one in the 50 Funniest Comedies Ever poll. Critics praised the film, which also proved a long-term success with audiences. In 2010, Airplane! was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. The directors cast Nielsen for his ability to play like "a... | and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994). The Naked Gun 2½ grossed more than the original, with $86.9 million, while 33⅓ grossed $51.1 million. Nielsen remained open to a fourth Naked Gun film, although he doubted that it would be produced — "I don't think so", he said in 2005. "If there hasn't been one by now, I dou... |
time war was declared, Andrić had returned to Split feeling exhausted and ill. Given that most of his friends had already been arrested for nationalist activities, he was certain the same fate would befall him. Despite not being involved in the assassination plot, in late July or early August, Andrić was arrested for "... | ceremony and pomp that accompanied his work in the diplomatic service, but according to Hawkesworth, he endured it with "dignified good grace". Around this time, he began writing in the Ekavian dialect used in Serbia, and ceased writing in the Ijekavian dialect used in his native Bosnia. Andrić soon requested another a... |
any of several pathways). In practice, D-D side reactions produce a significant number of neutrons, leaving p-11B as the preferred cycle for aneutronic fusion. Proton, boron-11 Both material science problems and non proliferation concerns are greatly diminished by aneutronic fusion. Theoretically, the most reactive ane... | a spherical shape. Stellarator: Twisted rings of hot plasma. The stellarator attempts to create a natural twisted plasma path, using external magnets. Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950 and evolved into four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac and Helias. One example is Wendelstein 7-X, a German dev... |
in 420 in favor of Liu Yu, who declared himself the ruler of the Song; Sima was asphyxiated with a blanket the following year. In the north, Northern Liang, the last of the Sixteen Kingdoms, was conquered by the Northern Wei in 439, ushering in the Northern dynasties period. The Xianbei Northern Wei accepted the Jin re... | throne and founded the dynasty of Huan Chu. He, in turn, was toppled by Liu Yu, who instated Sima Dezong, posthumously known as Emperor An (the "Peaceful Emperor of Jin"). Meanwhile, as civilian administration suffered, there were further revolts led by Sun En and Lu Xun; Western Shu became an independent kingdom under... |
or policeman in the castellany of Ath, a subdivision of the County of Hainaut, and they were active in the region between Tournai and Ath. The elder Gossard was documented from 1393 to 1425, and later became the mayor of Saint-Sauveur, a village in which Josquin later held a benefice. The younger Gossard commenced his ... | later observers as the mixing of these techniques was actually the process by which they were created. Cantus-firmus masses Prior to Josquin's mature period, the most common technique for writing masses was the cantus firmus, a technique which had been in use already for most of the 15th century. It was the technique t... |
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