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1214894 | Nathaniel Burslem | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathaniel%20Burslem | Nathaniel Burslem
eum & Memorial Garden, Winchester, England. He later achieved the rank of captain before selling his commission and sailing, along with his brother John Godolphin Burslem, to New Zealand. He arrived in 1865 and bought land in the North Island and was planning to grow flax, but he and an acquaintance c... | 14,800 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
Ethics in Government Act
The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is a United States federal law that was passed in the wake of the Nixon Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. It created mandatory, public disclosure of financial and employment history of public officials and their imm... | 14,801 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
the identity and approximate value of property held and liabilities owed, transactions in property, commodities, and securities, and certain financial interests of a spouse or dependent.
The report must then be filed to the appropriate state officer of his or her state, and the committee charg... | 14,802 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
officers of the Executive Branch, Postmaster General, the Deputy Postmaster General, each Governor of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service and each officer or employee of the United States Postal Service or Postal Regulatory Commission.
Disclosure must also be made available to th... | 14,803 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
title.
# Title III.
Vote to repeal took place in 1989, and took effect January 1, 1991. This title originally governed financial disclosure by judicial branch officials, but disclosure rules for all three branches were later consolidated into the first title.
# Title IV.
Title IV created th... | 14,804 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
for location as of 2011. He or she cannot be employed by an "entity which provides professional services involving a fiduciary relationship", have his or her name used by that entity, work on the board of that entity, or teach without prior authorization by the appropriate government ethics dep... | 14,805 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
the Attorney General to investigate specific allegations of federal offenses by the President, Vice President, individuals at specified salary levels in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice, any Assistant Attorney General, the Director and Deputy Director of Centr... | 14,806 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
Attorney General must decide if there is merit to the allegation within 90 days. If so, he or she must have a special prosecutor appointed who has all the power of the Department of Justice office except those specific to the Attorney General. The special prosecutor is chosen through a system w... | 14,807 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
impeachment of the person under investigation.
The special prosecutor can only be removed by impeachment and conviction by congress, or by the Attorney General for "substantial improprieties" or a physical or mental condition that affects performance.
The Department of Justice is required to ... | 14,808 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
Olson". Justice Scalia, a judicial conservative, noted that the U.S. Constitution granted consolidated power to enforce the law exclusively to the Executive Branch. The Act extended the power to initiate criminal investigation to the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, which ... | 14,809 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
voted down two-to-one". The bill's most controversial feature among Congressmen was its limit on outside income, which could be no more than 15 percent of his public service income. This restriction applied only to "earned" income, while excluding investment income from stocks or bonds. About a... | 14,810 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
climate of the time a "witch-hunt".
Specific provisions of the Act have faced criticism as either too weak or too strong. The Special Prosecutor created by Title VI was empowered to pursue investigations with minimal evidence, and was required to pursue any accusation that the District Attorne... | 14,811 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
was motivated by partisanship. The Office of Government Ethics created by Title IV has been criticized on the grounds that its limited budget, leadership and prestige are inadequate for the Office to function effectively.
Other critics complain that public disclosure involves a violation of pr... | 14,812 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
Bigham Young Law Review - online Archives
- Eastland, Terry. "The Independent-Counsel Regime". "Public Interest". 100 (1990:Summer) p. 68
- Greenhouse, Linda. "Blank Check; Ethics in Government: The Price of Good Intentions. "The New York Times". Feb. 1, 1998. Print. Blank Check; Ethics in Go... | 14,813 |
1214890 | Ethics in Government Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethics%20in%20Government%20Act | Ethics in Government Act
. "Blank Check; Ethics in Government: The Price of Good Intentions. "The New York Times". Feb. 1, 1998. Print. Blank Check; Ethics in Government: The Price of Good Intentions - New York Times
- O'Conner, Karen and Larry Sabato. "American Government: Continuity and Change." 8th. ed. New York: P... | 14,814 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa ("Research and Academic Computer Network") or NASK is a Polish research and development organization and data networks operator.
# .PL Registry.
NASK is the .pl ccTLD registry. While launching in 2003 a ... | 14,815 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
domain names in the .pl domain registry.
Each entrepreneur, meeting the technical and formal requirements specified by NASK, may become a NASK’s Partner. The Partner Programme gives subscribers an opportunity to choose the most attractive offer from a number of Polish and foreign ... | 14,816 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
of Information Technology and Telecommunications was established.
Besides domain registration, NASK offers through its Partners such services as Waiting List Service (WLS) – the so-called “option” enabling the purchase of the 3-year period of priority for registration of a domain ... | 14,817 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
domain security, since 20 December 2011 NASK has begun to implement DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) in the production environment, and since 4 June 2012 subscribers have been allowed to forward to the .pl registry the DS records of secured domain names.
Since 1 Jul... | 14,818 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
operates within the structures of NASK. CERT Polska is the first Polish computer emergency response team. Active since 1996 in the response teams community, it has become a recognized and experienced entity in the field of computer security. Since its launch, the core of the team’s... | 14,819 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
a forum of Polish abuse teams, Abuse FORUM, was created. In 2010 CERT Polska joined the Anti-Phishing Working Group, an association of companies and institutions which actively fight on-line crime.
Main responsibilities of CERT Polska include:
- registration and handling of netwo... | 14,820 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
analysis, and correlation of threat;
- regular publication of the annual CERT Polska Report on security of Polish cyberspace;
- informational and educational activities, aimed at raising awareness in relation to IT security, including:
- maintaining a blog at cert.pl as well as ... | 14,821 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
carries out awareness raising and educational activities to increase the level of the online safety of children and young people by, among others, taking various initiatives, including campaigns, conferences, trainings for professionals and experts as well as workshops for the youn... | 14,822 |
1214904 | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naukowa%20i%20Akademicka%20Sieć%20Komputerowa | Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa
ies to increase the level of the online safety of children and young people by, among others, taking various initiatives, including campaigns, conferences, trainings for professionals and experts as well as workshops for the youngest Internet users.
Dyżurnet.pl operates as part of... | 14,823 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
AA-52 machine gun
The AA-52 (full designation in French: "Arme Automatique Transformable Modèle 1952", "Transformable automatic weapon model 1952") is one of the first French-produced guns of the post–World War II era. It was manufactured by the French government-owned Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Ét... | 14,824 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
History.
The AA-52 general-purpose machine gun was conceived and developed following the French military's experiences in the First Indochina War during the early 1950s. At that time, the French army was equipped with an assortment of weapons from British and American sources, as well as some German ... | 14,825 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
by 10,881 FN MAG general-purpose machine guns.
# Design.
The AA-52 is a peculiar weapon among modern machine guns because it uses lever-delayed blowback operation, also seen in the FAMAS rifle, manufactured at the same factory. When firing, the pressure pushing the case head rearward initiates an im... | 14,826 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
machine gun with a bipod or as a heavy machine gun with a tripod. When used with a tripod for continuous fire, the gun is fitted with a heavier barrel. In the light machine gun configuration, the AA-52 is a relatively light weapon to carry. The AA-52 can be fired from the shoulder but this is slightly... | 14,827 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
French cartridge. The general adoption of the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge reduced the opportunity for export sales, and the gun was adapted for this standard NATO calibre.
## MAC-58.
The MAC-58 was a version of the AA-52 chambered in .50 BMG. A few prototypes were tested and one retained for preserial ... | 14,828 |
1214884 | AA-52 machine gun | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AA-52%20machine%20gun | AA-52 machine gun
The MAC-58 was a version of the AA-52 chambered in .50 BMG. A few prototypes were tested and one retained for preserial production, but it never reached production due to the large quantity of US M2 Browning machine guns already in service with the French armed forces.
# Users.
- : Twin AA-52 machin... | 14,829 |
1214905 | NASK | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NASK | NASK
NASK
NASK may refer to:
- Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa, or Research and Academic Computer Network, a Polish research and development organization
- Nord-Amerika Somera Kursaro, or North American Summer Esperanto Institute, an Esperanto immersion course | 14,830 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
Knight's fee
In feudal Anglo-Norman England and Ireland, a knight's fee was a unit measure of land deemed sufficient to support a knight. Of necessity, it would not only provide sustenance for himself, his family, esquires and servants, but also the means to furnish himself and his retinue with horses and... | 14,831 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
location, the richness of its soil and the local climate, as well as the presence of other exploitable resources such as fish-weirs, quarries of rock or mines of minerals. If a knight's fee is deemed co-terminous with a manor, an average size would be between 1,000 and 5,000 acres, of which much in early t... | 14,832 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
enfeoffment become his tenant by paying homage and fealty to his new overlord. This homage and fealty was a vow of loyalty to his overlord, with corresponding vow of protection received, and an undertaking to provide a specified form of service commonly due under feudal land tenure in England. Broadly spea... | 14,833 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
should live in suitable style and be well-turned out in battle, with the required number of esquires to serve him and with horses, arms and armour for all.
# Used as a unit for tax assessment.
A feudal tenant-in-chief of the king was assessed for certain feudal aids according as to how many knight's fees... | 14,834 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
fee was not only originally created by the process of subinfeudation, but could itself be split into smaller units by the same process, otherwise than through inheritance. By this means, until the practice was outlawed in 1290 by the statute of "Quia Emptores", a knight could create his own feudal retainer... | 14,835 |
1214902 | Knight's fee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knight's%20fee | Knight's fee
ginally created by the process of subinfeudation, but could itself be split into smaller units by the same process, otherwise than through inheritance. By this means, until the practice was outlawed in 1290 by the statute of "Quia Emptores", a knight could create his own feudal retainer who would pledge fe... | 14,836 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Taufik Batisah
Muhammad Taufik bin Batisah (Jawi: محمد تيوفيك بن بتيسه; born 10 December 1981) is a Singaporean singer and winner of the first season of the reality TV series "Singapore Idol".
# Early life.
Taufik was born to a Malay family of mixed Indian and Buginese descent. His parents divorced wh... | 14,837 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
the first ever Singapore Idol at the Singapore Indoor Stadium before an audience of more than 8,000 fans and 1.8 million viewers across the country. He scored a recording deal with Sony BMG and a management deal under Hype Records' artiste management arm, ArtisteNetworks. It was later revealed that Taufi... | 14,838 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
his first English album "Blessings". The album included Taufik's hits from the competition such as "Me and Mrs Jones", "Let's Stay Together", "Superstition" as well as the Idol winning song "I Dream". Taufik also co-wrote one track on the album titled "Close 2 You". "Blessings" went on to a smashing sale... | 14,839 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
he charmed both the media and full-house audience with his soulful singing and smooth on-stage moves.
In 2006, Taufik released his second album "All Because of You" where he wrote and produced eight of the tracks. The English-Malay album spurred off a string of hits and further opened doors to the Malay... | 14,840 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Anugerah Planet Muzik 2006. Winning Favourite Artist Singapore at the 2006 MTV Asia Awards further elevated Taufik's career to further heights. An iconic role model, Taufik was also voted as the Winner of Kid's Choice Wannabe Award (Singapore) at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award 2006.
Taufik continued... | 14,841 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Award at the Anugerah Planet Muzik 2007. "Usah Lepaskan" was also the Number 1 Song of the Year on Ria 89.7FM.
In 2007, he debuted his Malaysian album titled, "Teman Istimewa (Special Friend)" on 5 September and was the album long-awaited by the Malaysian "Fiknatics" (as his fans are called). Taufik pro... | 14,842 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Saerah)".
In 2008, Taufik won the Most Popular Artiste (Singapore) Award and Most Popular Song (Singapore) Award for his composition "Berserah (Surrender)" as well as the Best Singapore Artiste Award at Anugerah Planet Muzik 2008. He also received the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture), awarded by... | 14,843 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
album "Suria Hatiku (Light of My Heart)". This critically acclaimed Malay album showcased a wide variety of songs of different genres and had spurned multiple Number No. 1 hits such as "Gadis Itu (That Girl)", "Nafasku (My Breathe)", "Hey" and "Kepadanya (For Him)". The album also featured music collabor... | 14,844 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
and the Singapore Day 2009 event in London. He was also invited to represent Singapore to perform at the ASEAN – Korea Commemorative Summit in Korea and performed at APEC Singapore 2009's "Singapore Evening at The Esplanade".
The year 2010 proved to be an exuberant start for Taufik. Besides fronting the... | 14,845 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
The year also saw him diversifying his art and making his theatrical debut in Dick Lee's "Fried Rice Paradise – The Musical".
In 2011, he was part of the "Home" video project under Total Defence Campaign and also fronted the "WeAreOne" fund raising project for the Japan tsunami. He also released an Eid ... | 14,846 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
"Aku Bersahaja" was released in Singapore and Malaysia and to date, is his eighth Malay No. 1 radio chart topper.
For his achievements in the local music scene, he was honoured with the Yahoo! "Singapore Most Influential Person in Entertainment 2011".
In 2012, his hit ballad 'Usah Lepaskan' was also vo... | 14,847 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
dominated by international acts.
Taufik represented Singapore at the first ABU TV Song Festival 2012 at the KBS Concert Hall, in Seoul, South Korea on 14 October 2012. He performed his multi-award-winning composition -"Usah Lepaskan" at the international gala music concert alongside high-profile music t... | 14,848 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Terbaik" (Best Collaboration) in Singapore's Malay regional music Anugerah Planet Muzik.
Taufik also rose in the ranks of the regional and international music scene when he received significant recognition from Korea's Mnet Asia Music Awards (MAMA) for Best Asian Artist (Singapore) as well as Anugerah P... | 14,849 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Hadi awarded the album four out of five stars and wrote that it was "not so much Taufik, 32, reinventing himself as it is him taking the best parts of his past and moulding them into one cohesive work...a solid collection of songs." "TODAY" 's Kenneth Choy awarded "Fique" four out of five, calling the al... | 14,850 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
his new single, '#AwakKatMane' (Where Are You), off his recent album, "Fique".
# Discography.
Studio albums
- 2005: "Blessings"
- 2006: "All Because of You"
- 2007: "Teman Istimewa"
- 2008: "Suria Hatikuu"
- 2014: "Fique"
Other albums
- 2005: "Shooting Stars" Original Soundtrack
- 2010: "Fried ... | 14,851 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
"Awak Kat Mane"
- 2014: "Hanya Kamu"
- 2015: "Izinkanku"
- 2017: "Untuk Kita"
- 2017: "Memilih Mencintaimu" (feat. Adira)
# Stage.
- 2010 : "Fried Rice Paradise – The Musical"
# Awards.
2006
- Pesta! Pesta! Pesta! – Most Sellable Artiste
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2006 – Most Popular Male Artiste
... | 14,852 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
Song ("Usah Lepaskan")
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2007 – Best Local Singapore Song ("Usah Lepaskan")
2008
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2008 – Most Popular Singapore Artiste
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2008 – Most Popular Singapore Song ("Berserah")
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2008 – Best Singapore Artiste
- Singap... | 14,853 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
("Suria Hatiku")
- AnugeraHitz.sg 2010 – Most Popular Song ("Nafasku")
- AnugeraHitz.sg 2010 – Most Popular Song ("KepadaNya")
- AnugeraHitz.sg 2010 – Most Popular Artiste
2011
- Yahoo! Singapore – Singapore 9 Award (in Entertainment Category)
2012
- MediaCorp Suria BandStand Elektra – MOST ICONIC... | 14,854 |
1214893 | Taufik Batisah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taufik%20Batisah | Taufik Batisah
st Collaboration, with Indonesia's Rossa in the song "Aku Bersahaja"
- Mnet Asian Music Awards 2012 – Best Asian Artist (Singapore)
2013
- Sri Temasek Award 2013 – Sri Temasek Promising Award
2014
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2014 - Most Popular Song (Singapore)
- Anugerah Planet Muzik 2014 - Most Popul... | 14,855 |
1214916 | Constantin Sănătescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Constantin%20Sănătescu | Constantin Sănătescu
Constantin Sănătescu
Constantin Sănătescu (14 January 1885, Craiova – 8 November 1947, Bucharest) was a Romanian statesman who served as the 44th Prime Minister of Romania after the 23 August 1944 coup, through which Romania left the Axis Powers and joined the Allies.
# Life and career.
The son ... | 14,856 |
1214916 | Constantin Sănătescu | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Constantin%20Sănătescu | Constantin Sănătescu
eral in 1935, he was named deputy Chief of the General Staff in 1937. Sănătescu led the Romanian legation to Moscow in 1940, after the beginning of World War II. From 1941 to 1943 he commanded the IV Corps; from 1943 to 1944, he commanded the 4th Army.
When the pro-German dictatorship of Marshal I... | 14,857 |
1214925 | HOI | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HOI | HOI
HOI
HOI or Hoi may refer to:
- "Hearts of Iron", a 2002 computer game
- Home insurance or homeowners insurance
- Hypoiodous acid, chemical formula HOI
- Hoi District, Aichi, a former district of Japan
- Hoxnian geological stage, HOI is sub-stage I
- Carsten Høi (born 1957), Danish chess Grandmaster
# See al... | 14,858 |
1214918 | Donald Cameron (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Cameron%20(VC) | Donald Cameron (VC)
Donald Cameron (VC)
Commander Donald Cameron VC (18 March 1916 – 10 April 1961) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is one of three VC winners from the small town of Carlu... | 14,859 |
1214918 | Donald Cameron (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Cameron%20(VC) | Donald Cameron (VC)
1943 at Kåfjord on the Altafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Cameron, commanding Midget Submarine X.6, and another lieutenant (Basil Charles Godfrey Place) commanding Midget Submarine X.7, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship "Tirpitz". The small submarines had to t... | 14,860 |
1214918 | Donald Cameron (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Cameron%20(VC) | Donald Cameron (VC)
22 February 1944) and read:
He achieved the rank of commander in 1955, and was in charge of HMS "Dolphin", the submarine base at Fort Blockhouse. Cameron married WRNS's member Eve Kilpatrick in 1940 and they had four children. Cameron's health deteriorated in the last years of his life and he was e... | 14,861 |
1214918 | Donald Cameron (VC) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donald%20Cameron%20(VC) | Donald Cameron (VC)
in charge of HMS "Dolphin", the submarine base at Fort Blockhouse. Cameron married WRNS's member Eve Kilpatrick in 1940 and they had four children. Cameron's health deteriorated in the last years of his life and he was eventually admitted to Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth, where he died on 10 Apr... | 14,862 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
Universal language
Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world's population. In some contexts, it refers to a means of communication said to be understood by all living things. It may be the idea of an international auxiliar... | 14,863 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
deflection of the question. For example, in Islam the Arabic language is the language of the Qur'an, and therefore universal for Muslims. The written Classical Chinese language
is still read widely but pronounced differently by readers in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan; for centuries it was a "de f... | 14,864 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
language of literati in the Middle Ages, and the language of the Vulgate Bible in the area of Catholicism, which covered most of Western Europe and parts of Northern and Central Europe also.
In a more practical fashion, trade languages, such as ancient Koine Greek, may be seen as a kind of "real" un... | 14,865 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
Jewish and Christian beliefs, the story of the Tower of Babel tells of a consequent "confusion of tongues" (the splintering of numerous languages from an original Adamic language) as a punishment from God.
Myths exist in other cultures describing the creation of multiple languages as an act of a god... | 14,866 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
Early Modern Europe. A "lingua franca" or trade language was nothing very new; but an international auxiliary language was a natural wish in light of the gradual decline of Latin. Literature in vernacular languages became more prominent with the Renaissance. Over the course of the 18th century, learn... | 14,867 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
universal language, specifically a constructed language, a concept that gradually came to replace that of a rationalized Latin as the natural basis for a projected universal language. Leibniz conceived of a "characteristica universalis" (also see "mathesis universalis"), an "algebra" capable of expre... | 14,868 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
and the satirical attack of Voltaire on Panglossianism. Descartes's ambitions were far more modest than Leibniz's, and also far more successful, as shown by his wedding of algebra and geometry to yield what we now know as analytic geometry. Decades of research on symbolic artificial intelligence have... | 14,869 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
ultimately derives from Wilkins's "Essay".
"Candide", a satire written by Voltaire, took aim at Leibniz as Dr. Pangloss, with the choice of name clearly putting universal language in his sights, but satirizing mainly the optimism of the projector as much as the project. The argument takes the univer... | 14,870 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
sought to recover a supposed Edenic language. It was assumed that education inevitably took people away from an innate state of goodness they possessed, and therefore there was an attempt to see what language a human child brought up in utter silence would speak. This was assumed to be the Edenic ton... | 14,871 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
language. There were created languages which don't belong to any country and can be learned by everyone. Among these are Solresol, Volapük, and Esperanto, the most spoken constructed language today. At that time, those ideas were readily accepted. With the advent of World Wars and the Cold War, these... | 14,872 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
as North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. However, English is not the only language used in global organizations such as in the EU or the UN, because many countries do not recognize English as a universal language.
The early ideas of a universal language with complete conceptual classific... | 14,873 |
1214877 | Universal language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal%20language | Universal language
izations such as in the EU or the UN, because many countries do not recognize English as a universal language.
The early ideas of a universal language with complete conceptual classification by categories is still debated on various levels. Michel Foucault believed such classifications to be subject... | 14,874 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
Luísa Todi
Luísa Rosa de Aguiar Todi (1753–1833) was a popular and successful Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer.
# Early life.
Luísa Todi was born Luísa Rosa de Aguiar on 9 January 1753 in Setúbal, Portugal. In 1765, her family moved to Lisbon, where her father was a musical writer in the Theatre of B... | 14,875 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
Scolari's opera "Il Viaggiatore Ridicolo", in the Theatre of Bairro Alto. From 1772 to 1777, Luísa lived in Porto, where she was a singer and a singing teacher and where she began to be recognized as an artist of stature.
# Rise to fame.
In the winter of 1777, at age 24, she gave her first performance abro... | 14,876 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
performances in Germany and Austria in 1781.
She returned to Paris for further "Concerts Spirituels" series, during which time a confrontation arose between Luísa Todi and the German soprano Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749–1833), which divided the public. Luísa Todi won this battle of rivals, being called by t... | 14,877 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
bracelets. To express their gratitude, Luísa and her husband wrote the opera "Pollinia" and dedicated it to the Empress.
The opera's première was in October, when Luísa performed with the famous castrato Luigi Marchesi (1754–1829). Marchesi, famous for his turbulent temperament, envied her success. He and t... | 14,878 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
II of Prussia's court.
The following year she returned to Paris for her third season of "Concerts Spirituels" and was considered by critics as "the greatest singer of her time." She returned to the Prussian court a few weeks before the beginning of the French Revolution.
# Height of her career.
In 1790 sh... | 14,879 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
the Italian season of 1790/1791 became known as "Todi's Year". But during her stay in Venice, she started experiencing vision problems, which caused her to abandon the stage for some months. The Venetians expressed their concern and fans wrote hundreds of verses and poems in her honour. When Luísa returned t... | 14,880 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
(the future John VI) daughter's birth. Sadly, her native country failed to recognize Luísa's outstanding talent, because her performance was not widely advertised and the Royal Family was absent from the event.
After singing in Naples, she returned to Portugal in 1801, living in Porto. There she continued t... | 14,881 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
Todi and her family were imprisoned by the French, but General Soult recognized her as "the Nation's Singer" and protected her.
# Death.
In 1811 she moved to Lisbon. By 1823, following her earlier vision problems, she had become completely blind. She died on 1 October 1833 after suffering a stroke the prev... | 14,882 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
cellar.
# Legacy.
Before her death, Luísa Todi saw her talent immortalized in Antoine Reicha's book "Traité de melodie", where she is described as "the Singer of all Centuries". In modern Lisbon, the street in which Luísa Todi died was named Rua Luísa Todi in 1917. This is at the northern edge of Bairro Al... | 14,883 |
1214922 | Luísa Todi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luísa%20Todi | Luísa Todi
e Alcântara above the church of São Roque. She was also immortalized in her native city of Setúbal with a large monument and bust as well as the naming of Setúbal's biggest main avenue as Avenida Luísa Todi.
Todi was praised for her vocal abilities, her clear diction, her linguistic skills (she spoke excell... | 14,884 |
1214935 | Vegard Skogheim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vegard%20Skogheim | Vegard Skogheim
Vegard Skogheim
Vegard Skogheim (born 28 April 1966) is a Norwegian football coach and former midfielder.
During his active career he played for HamKam, Werder Bremen and Viking. He has a total of 197 matches and 36 goals in the Norwegian Premier League. Skogheim played 13 matches for the Norway natio... | 14,885 |
1214935 | Vegard Skogheim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vegard%20Skogheim | Vegard Skogheim
played 13 matches for the Norway national football team and scored a goal.
As a coach, he has been in charge of Lillehammer and Brumunddal, and has been managing Kongsvinger with success, securing promotion from Second Division in 2003, and almost repeating the feat in First Division in 2004. During wi... | 14,886 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
James Thomas Fields
James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an American publisher, editor, and poet.
# Biography.
## Early life and family.
He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on December 31, 1817 and named James Field; the family later added the "s". His father was a s... | 14,887 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
delivered his "Anniversary Poem" to the Boston Mercantile Library Association.
## Publishing career.
In 1839, he joined William Ticknor and became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1845 as Ticknor and Fields. Ticknor oversaw the business side of the firm while Field... | 14,888 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
some of whom he also knew intimately. The company paid royalties to these British authors, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, at a time when other American publishers pirated the works of those authors. The first collected edition of Thomas de Quincey's works (20 vols., 1850–... | 14,889 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
she died of tuberculosis on April 17, 1845. He maintained a close friendship with her family and, on March 13, 1850, married her 18-year-old sister Eliza Willard at Boston's Federal Street Church. Also sick with tuberculosis, she died on July 13, 1851. Grief-stricken, he left the United States for a... | 14,890 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edwin Percy Whipple. In 1867, he performed the same role after the death of Nathaniel Parker Willis, along with Holmes, Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Samuel Gridley Howe.
Ticknor and Fields purc... | 14,891 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
for the firm. Fields was less concerned with the retail store owned by the company and wanted to focus on publishing. On November 12, 1864, he sold the Old Corner Bookstore and moved Ticknor and Fields to 124 Tremont Street.
In 1868 the business became Fields, Osgood, and Company, recognizing James... | 14,892 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
suffered a brain hemorrhage and collapsed before a scheduled lecture at Wellesley College. By autumn he seemed to have recovered. In January 1881, he gave what would be his final public lecture, coincidentally at the Mercantile Library Association, the organization which hosted his first public read... | 14,893 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
Orne Jewett, and the two became companions for the rest of their lives.
# Writing.
In addition to his work as a publisher and essayist, Fields wrote poetry. A number of his works are collected in his book "Ballads and Verses" published in 1880. This volume contains the poem "The Ballad of the Temp... | 14,894 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
wrote the biography "Memoir of James T. Fields, by his Wife" (Boston, 1881) and "Authors and Friends" (Boston, 1896), which also mentions him. James T. Fields was known in his lifetime as one of the most successful and shrewd book promoters, working at a time when bribery was typical in the publishi... | 14,895 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
As author Rebecca Harding Davis said, he was "the shrewdest of publishers and kindest of men. He was the wire that conducted the lightning so that it never struck amiss." He also knew the tastes of the reading public. Fields was reputedly able to ascertain what book a visitor to the Old Corner Books... | 14,896 |
1214921 | James Thomas Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Thomas%20Fields | James Thomas Fields
miss." He also knew the tastes of the reading public. Fields was reputedly able to ascertain what book a visitor to the Old Corner Bookstore would purchase within 10 minutes of arrival.
After Fields's death, his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem called """" dedicated to him. Fields, al... | 14,897 |
1214933 | Annie Adams Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annie%20Adams%20Fields | Annie Adams Fields
Annie Adams Fields
Annie Adams Fields (June 6, 1834 – January 5, 1915) was an American writer. Among her writings are collections of poetry and essays as well as several memoirs and biographies of her literary acquaintances. She was also interested in philanthropic work, in which she found her great... | 14,898 |
1214933 | Annie Adams Fields | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annie%20Adams%20Fields | Annie Adams Fields
nature, history, travel books, and biography, and cultivating one's "power of expression." Upon his suggestion, Fields began to keep a diary, though she usually kept her own feelings out of it. She sometimes recorded good thoughts or beautiful images which are presented or suggested by observing, rea... | 14,899 |
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