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750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
4th Viscount Stonehaven, 4th Baron Stonehaven, 5th Baronet, 6th of Ury (b. 15 April 1976).
# Castles.
- Keith Marischal House, three miles south of Pencaitland, East Lothian, is an L-plan tower house that dates from the sixteenth century. It is on the site of an earlier castle that was built by the Keiths ... | 15,500 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
courtyard, chapel and the entrance to the castle that is up a steep ascent through a tunnel. Donald, King of Scots was killed there in 900 and William Wallace captured the castle from the English in 1297. Mary, Queen of Scots stayed at the castle in 1562 and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose unsuccessfu... | 15,501 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
the 6th Earl Marischal. The castle was held for William of Orange in 1689 and many Jacobites were imprisoned in it. The Duke of Argyll partly slighted the castle after George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal had supported the Jacobite rising of 1715.
- Keith Hall in Aberdeenshire, once known as Caskieben, is the ... | 15,502 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
held by the Cheynes but passed to the Keith Earls Marischal in about 1350. The Keiths who inhabited Caithness had a long and bitter feud with the Clan Gunn. In 1556 the Keiths were besieged in the castle by the Clan Sinclair before eventually selling it to them in 1612. Sir Robert Keith of Benholm had also o... | 15,503 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
(London, 1849);
- John Spalding, "Memorials of the Troubles in Scotland, 1624–1645" (2 vols., Spalding Club Publ. 21, 23, Aberdeen, 1850–1851);
- Sir Robert Douglas, rev. John Philip Wood, "The Peerage of Scotland" (Edinburgh, 1813);
- G.E.C., "Complete Peerage", vol. iv (London, 1892).
- Homer Dixon B. ... | 15,504 |
750113 | Clan Keith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clan%20Keith | Clan Keith
., "Complete Peerage", vol. iv (London, 1892).
- Homer Dixon B. "The Border or Riding Clans and History of Clan Dickson" Albany, New York Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers 1889
- Alexander Nisbet. "Nisbet's System of Heraldry" published in Edinburgh 1722
- Frank Adam and Thomas Innes. "The Clans, Septs and ... | 15,505 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
William H. Woodin
William Hartman Woodin (May 27, 1868 – May 3, 1934) was a U.S. industrialist. He served as the Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
# Biography.
Woodin was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania. He was closely involved in Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company. His fa... | 15,506 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
eastern United States, and was one of the 13 companies that merged in 1899 to form American Car and Foundry Company (ACF).
Woodin married Annie Jessup, on October 9, 1889. They had three daughters and one son: Mary, Annie Jessup, William Hartman, Jr., and Elizabeth Foster Woodin. They lived in New Yo... | 15,507 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
Wooden Willie. In 1933, Woodin composed a march in honor of Roosevelt.
Woodin was a Republican businessman and was a major contributor to Roosevelt's campaign in 1932. Woodin served as the Treasury Secretary from March 4, 1933 until he resigned effective December 31, 1933. Because of his poor health,... | 15,508 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
payment of their money. Woodin was the point man in the administration's declaration of a "Bank Holiday" which closed every bank in the U.S. until bank examiners could determine which were sound enough to re-open. With "seals of approval" from the examiners, depositors regained confidence, and the vas... | 15,509 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
While he was the Secretary of the Treasury, the Administration also began the decision-making process that eventually led to the administration's decision to buy all the gold in private hands in the United States (other than that used by dentists and jewelers) and then to raise the dollar price of gol... | 15,510 |
750170 | William H. Woodin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Woodin | William H. Woodin
ld in private hands in the United States (other than that used by dentists and jewelers) and then to raise the dollar price of gold, devaluing the dollar against gold.
Treasury Under Secretary Dean Acheson opposed FDR on the latter two decisions and was forced to resign in November 1933. Woodin was a... | 15,511 |
750182 | George David Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20David%20Woods | George David Woods
George David Woods
George David Woods (July 27, 1901 – August 20, 1982) was a U.S. banker. He served as President of the World Bank from January 1963 until March 1968.
# Biography.
George Woods was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1901. After completing high school he was employed as an office boy... | 15,512 |
750182 | George David Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20David%20Woods | George David Woods
Corporation, a newly formed securities company.
First Boston became one of the largest investment banking firms in the United States, and Woods played a major role in it. In 1947 he became one of two executive vice presidents, then in 1948 became chairman of the executive committee. Then, in 1951 Wo... | 15,513 |
750182 | George David Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20David%20Woods | George David Woods
and North and South. Under Woods, there was an increasing focus on economic analysis in determining root causes for constrained growth in developing nations, and less focus on the basis determination of country creditworthiness.
Under his tenure, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment... | 15,514 |
750186 | William Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Woods | William Woods
William Woods
William, Bill or Billy Woods may refer to:
# Sports.
- Billy Woods (Irish footballer) (born 1973), Irish semi-professional footballer
- Billy Woods (New Zealand footballer), New Zealand international football (soccer) player
- Bill Woods (Australian footballer) (1890–?), Australian rule... | 15,515 |
750186 | William Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Woods | William Woods
language processing and semantics
- William Woods (officer of arms) (1785–1842), British officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
- William Allen Woods (1837–1901), U.S. federal judge
- William Woods University, university in Fulton, Missouri
- Billy Woods (rapper), American hip-hop artist
- ... | 15,516 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
Wycliffe (TV series)
Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was fi... | 15,517 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.
# Setting and characters.
The Cornish setting is an important ... | 15,518 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
away from home during an investigation. This can cause problems for Wycliffe, who is shown as a contented family man, married to a teacher (Lynn Farleigh) and with two teenage children; it also makes it difficult for Lane and Kersey, who are both single, to form relationships outside work.
Wycliff... | 15,519 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
is the only episode for which a fictional Cornish town ('Eastgate') was invented, complete with a red light district.
It is reasonable to assume that, as a Detective Superintendent, Wycliffe is the head of CID for one division, the boundary of which appears to run approximately from Padstow on the... | 15,520 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
near Bodmin, as being on "the other side of the county".
One of the recurring characters who appeared in 22 episodes, Detective Constable Ian Potter, was played by Adam Barker (son of Ronnie Barker). Adam Barker was jailed in 2012 for possessing child pornography; he had been on the run for eight ... | 15,521 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
featured in a number of episodes, while a station called 'Trewenna' in 'Dead on arrival' was actually St Erth, the main line junction for St Ives.
# Murder investigations and police themes.
The series shows detective and forensic work in a reasonably accurate way, but the emphasis is more on the ... | 15,522 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
offered promotion, though she later realises she is being used to fulfil sexual equality quotas in the force rather than being judged on her ability; as a result there are tensions between her and Kersey, though they have previously been close. Kersey is the subject of an internal investigation and... | 15,523 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
a particular responsibility such as Operations or Personnel. The Deputy Chief Constable is normally too senior to be troubled with operational details, unless a major crisis occurs.
The police force is described as "South West Constabulary", which is a fictional title. However, assuming that SWC c... | 15,524 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
Series 4 and Series 5, which ended with Wycliffe being shot by a criminal. During Series 5, he is shown struggling to recover from the trauma of this injury; the darker tone of this series culminates with Wycliffe falsely accused of a crime and only proven innocent at the last moment.
On occasion,... | 15,525 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
ran for five series from 24 July 1994 to 5 July 1998, and included a pilot episode (originally shown on 7 August 1993) and a Christmas special shown between the fourth and fifth series.
Notes:br
## Series 1.
The first series of "Wycliffe" was originally aired on ITV in the summer of 1994.
The p... | 15,526 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
"Wycliffe" was originally aired on ITV in the summer of 1996. There was a short hiatus in the third series due to ITV's coverage of the Euro '96 football tournament.
## Series 4.
The fourth series of "Wycliffe" was originally aired on ITV in the summer of 1997.
## Series 5.
The final series of ... | 15,527 |
750157 | Wycliffe (TV series) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wycliffe%20(TV%20series) | Wycliffe (TV series)
Shepherd directing two episodes: "On Offer"; and "Standing Stone". During the filming of this series, Jimmy Yuill fell ill with meningitis. While he was in hospital the production company (HTV) terminated his contract. Though he made a full recovery, HTV refused to allow him to return to the progra... | 15,528 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
Steve Tibbetts
Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is an American guitarist and composer. He views the recording studio as a tool for creating sounds. Most of his albums include percussionist Marc Anderson.
# Style.
Tibbetts plays acoustic and electric guitar and exotic percussive instruments such as the kenda... | 15,529 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
such as the footsteps in the track "Running" from "Safe Journey" and the chanting of Nepalese villagers on "Big Map Idea". His albums often include percussion by Marc Anderson. The album "A Man About a Horse" included tracks based on rhythms built from different pitches and speeds. These recordings were ... | 15,530 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1954. When he was twelve years old, he started to play guitar was attracted to the electric distortion of the Blind Joe Mendelbaum Blues Band. He went to college in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he experimented with distortion pedals and other devices that could be plugged into a g... | 15,531 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
was "Northern Song" for ECM in 1982. This was an attempt to fit into producer Manfred Eicher's style of recording in two or three days. "Northern Song" received scathing reviews. Tibbetts returned to his method of recording slowly over a period of months or longer. His subsequent records gained better re... | 15,532 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
and 2005. Starting in the late 1980s he travelled extensively in Nepal, which is where he met Drolma. Their first collaboration, "Chö", was not intended as a commercial record but it was released and gained some positive notice. The second album, "Selwa", was a more carefully considered collaboration and... | 15,533 |
750185 | Steve Tibbetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Tibbetts | Steve Tibbetts
a more carefully considered collaboration and was praised as a successful meeting between different musical traditions. These albums helped establish Drolma's career on the Nepalese music chart.
# Discography.
- "Steve Tibbetts" (Frammis, 1977)
- "Yr" (Frammis, 1980)
- "Northern Song" (ECM, 1982)
- ... | 15,534 |
750194 | 99 Posse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=99%20Posse | 99 Posse
99 Posse
99 Posse is an Italian hip hop/reggae group from Naples. It raps both in Italian and in the local Naples dialect. Most of 99 Posse's songs deal with political or social issues, and the group members are considered left-wing hardliners. As a showing of their activism, all of the group's albums have be... | 15,535 |
750194 | 99 Posse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=99%20Posse | 99 Posse
Curre Guagliò" (1993), was mainly influenced by reggae and world music. Subsequent albums, "Cerco Tiempo" (1996) and "Corto Circuito" (1998), included new styles like drum 'n bass and trip hop. "Curre Curre Guaglio" was self-produced, but rose from its underground status to become an iconic album and cultural ... | 15,536 |
750194 | 99 Posse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=99%20Posse | 99 Posse
Former members.
- Luca "'O Zulù" Persico - vocals
- Marco "Kaya Pezz8" Messina - sampler and dub master
- Massimo "JRM" Jovine - bass
- Sacha Ricci - keyboard
- Claudio "Clark Kent" Marino - drums
## Ex-members.
- Maria "Meg" Di Donna - vocals
# Bibliography.
- Behan, Tom. (2007) "Putting spanners in ... | 15,537 |
750194 | 99 Posse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=99%20Posse | 99 Posse
Iacovo, Rosario. (2014) Curre curre guagliò: Storie dei 99 Posse. Milan: Baldini&Castoldi.
- Dines, Nick. (1999) "Centri sociali: occupazioni autogestite a Napoli negli anni novanta", Quaderni di sociologia, 43(21), 90-111.
- Messina, Marcello. (2016) "Cattivi guagliuni: the identity politics of 99 Posse". I... | 15,538 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
Harry Hines Woodring
Harry Hines Woodring (May 31, 1887September 9, 1967) was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th Governor of Kansas and was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration from 1936 to 1940. He was also the United States Assistant Secretary... | 15,539 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
and assistant cashier of the First National Bank in Elk City.
# Career.
Woodring soon became assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Neodesha. Woodring moved up quickly to become vice president and owner of the bank until he enlisted as a private in the US Army. He was later commissioned ... | 15,540 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
most votes, but the state only counted ballots with "J. R. Brinkley" written in, disqualifying tens of thousands of ballots with variants like "John Brinkley" written in. Woodring himself admitted he would have lost, had all Brinkley's votes been counted. Woodring served as governor of Kansas from ... | 15,541 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
with whom had three children. Coolidge was the daughter of United States Senator Marcus A. Coolidge.
Woodring served as Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936, with supervision over procurement matters. He was promoted and served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt from 19... | 15,542 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
other cabinet members to resign in the first year of World War II. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes met with Roosevelt at least twice to call for Woodring's firing, but FDR was at first unwilling to do so, instead appointing outspoken interventionist Louis A. Johnson as Woodring's assistant s... | 15,543 |
750177 | Harry Hines Woodring | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Hines%20Woodring | Harry Hines Woodring
g, replacing him with long-time Republican politician Henry Stimson. Woodring remained isolationist, opposing the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.
Woodring ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kansas in 1946, and for the Democratic Party nomination for that post in 1956.
# Death.
Woodri... | 15,544 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
Osoyoos
Osoyoos (, ) is the southernmost town in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia between Penticton and Omak. The town is north of the United States border with Washington state and is adjacent to the Osoyoos Indian Reserve. The origin of the name Osoyoos was the word "sẁiẁs" (pronounced "soo-yoos") mea... | 15,545 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
summer months with seasonal visitors. Seniors (age 65 and over) comprise 43% of the town population. Another 1,858 people live around the town within Electoral Area A of the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, and 762 more in the Osoyoos 1 Indian Reserve.
# History.
Aboriginal people have lived in the ... | 15,546 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
in 1821, the Okanagan Valley became a major trade route for supplies to inland forts of British Columbia and furs that were shipped south to the Columbia River and the Pacific to European and Asian markets. The final Hudson’s Bay Company brigade in 1860 was the end of an era, as gold rushes transformed the econ... | 15,547 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
Haynes was also the first pioneer settler who obtained land along the Okanagan River north of Osoyoos that had been part of the Osoyoos Indian Reserve established by the Joint Indian Reserve Commission in 1877. These lands, now known as the Haynes Lease lands, can still be visited today and are home to an origi... | 15,548 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
The Crowsnest headed east begins with an switchback up the flank of the Okanagan Highland with a rise to the mining and ranching region of Anarchist Mountain, which is part of the Boundary Country (the stretch of rising highway is also referred to as Anarchist Mountain). Highway 3 westbound leads to Keremeos an... | 15,549 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
of , and a mean depth of . The lake’s elevation marks the lowest point in Canada of the Okanagan Valley.
The far southern reaches of the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys are part of a threatened ecosystem in Canada known as shrub-steppe. Specifically, the ecosystem of the area is named after the antelope brush... | 15,550 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
Okanagan-Lower Similkameen National Park Reserve Feasibility Study.
# Climate.
The climate, according to the Köppen climate classification, is cold semiarid (""BSk"") with summers that are generally hot and dry. September and October are usually dry and sunny with cool mornings. Winters are short and mild by ... | 15,551 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
sometimes topping . Although days are hot, the humidity is low and nights cool adequately. Daytime temperatures are the hottest in Canada as Osoyoos has the highest average annual daily maximum temperature in Canada as per table below. However, the summer mean is higher in Windsor in Ontario due to warmer night... | 15,552 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
above 35 °C (95 °F): 5.3
# Agriculture.
Although the fruit-growing possibilities were noticed by early settlers, the first commercial orchard in the area was not established until 1907, growing cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, pears and apples. Osoyoos Orchard Limited was formed in 1920 and an ... | 15,553 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
produce stands along Highways 3 and 97, and the numerous commercial orchards surrounding the town. With the growing popularity of viticulture, some of these orchards are being converted to vineyards, as the area is a major wine-producing region of Canada. After clearing of mainly sagebrush, parcels of bench lan... | 15,554 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
Osoyoos area.
Osoyoos Lake is "the warmest freshwater lake in Canada" according to the town of Osoyoos and the BC Parks System, with reported average summer water temperatures of 24 °C (75 °F). The lake is surrounded by kilometres of beaches (public and private), parks and picnic grounds, such as Gyro Beach, L... | 15,555 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
dedicated to preserving the ecosystem of the Okanagan Desert. The Osoyoos Desert Centre is located north of Osoyoos off Highway 97, while the Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre is located adjacent to the Nk'mip Winery on the Osoyoos Indian Reserve.
The area is served by three 18-hole golf courses - Osoyoos Golf Clu... | 15,556 |
750154 | Osoyoos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osoyoos | Osoyoos
ntain Golf Club (Oliver) and the Nk’Mip Canyon Desert Golf Course (Oliver) - and one nine-hole course, Sonora Dunes (Osoyoos).
# Demographics.
The town's popularity among retirees is reflected in the age of the average resident at 55.4 years (2016) compared to 40.8 years for the rest of the population of Brit... | 15,557 |
750215 | Fannett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fannett | Fannett
Fannett
Fannett can refer to:
- Fannett Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
- Fannett, Texas | 15,558 |
750176 | Edita Gruberová | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edita%20Gruberová | Edita Gruberová
Edita Gruberová
Edita Gruberová (born 23 December 1946), is a Slovak coloratura soprano. She is noted for her great tonal clarity, agility, dramatic power, endurance, and ability to sing high notes with great power and sustained vocal consistency, which made her an ideal Queen of the Night in her early... | 15,559 |
750176 | Edita Gruberová | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edita%20Gruberová | Edita Gruberová
National Theatre.
# Career.
In 1968, Gruberová made her operatic debut in Bratislava as Rosina in "The Barber of Seville". After winning a singing competition in Toulouse, she was then engaged as a soloist of the opera ensemble of the "J. G. Tajovský Theatre" in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, from 1968 to... | 15,560 |
750176 | Edita Gruberová | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edita%20Gruberová | Edita Gruberová
then decided to emigrate to the West. In subsequent years, she became a soloist in Vienna and was invited to sing at many of the most important opera houses in the world, especially in coloratura roles.
Gruberová made her debut at Glyndebourne in 1973 and at the Metropolitan Opera in 1977, both as the ... | 15,561 |
750176 | Edita Gruberová | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edita%20Gruberová | Edita Gruberová
Gilda, Violetta, Lucia, Konstanze, Manon and Oscar; she sang Donna Anna at La Scala in 1987, Marie in "La fille du régiment" in 1987, "Semiramide" in 1992 at Zürich, Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux" in Vienna in 1990. In 2003, she added title role in "Norma" to her repertoire, and san... | 15,562 |
750176 | Edita Gruberová | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edita%20Gruberová | Edita Gruberová
many recordings, most notably in recent years full-length recordings and extended selections from Donizetti's Tudor Queens trilogy and other "bel canto" operas, lately exclusively on Nightingale label. More than a dozen of her filmed and televised opera appearances have been released on DVD, including "... | 15,563 |
750212 | John VIII of Constantinople | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20VIII%20of%20Constantinople | John VIII of Constantinople
John VIII of Constantinople
John VIII Xiphilinos (; c. 1010 – 2 August 1075), a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual and Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064–1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinos the Epimator. He is considered "an innovator in the field of the methodology ... | 15,564 |
750212 | John VIII of Constantinople | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20VIII%20of%20Constantinople | John VIII of Constantinople
of Saint Alexius in which the question of the election of bishops to vacant sees was discussed. Michael Keroularios had forbidden metropolitans who were resident in Constantinople from participating in such elections. John, however, recognized that metropolitans sometimes had to remain for a... | 15,565 |
750212 | John VIII of Constantinople | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20VIII%20of%20Constantinople | John VIII of Constantinople
illness. The assembly with John's consent decreed that metropolitans who gave the patriarch advance notification of their intent could again vote while resident in Constantinople. After his death his remains were buried at the monastery of Angourion on 2 August 1075.
One of the leading Byza... | 15,566 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of "Webster's Dictionary" in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary wars". Worcester's dictionari... | 15,567 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
in Bedford, New Hampshire, and worked on a farm in his youth, entering Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1805. In 1809, he entered Yale University and graduated in two years. He began a school in Salem, Massachusetts in March 1812, but gave up on the project by 1815. One of his students had been a ... | 15,568 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Modern, accompanied by an Historical Atlas", published in 1827. Worcester collected philological works and wrote a journal in Europe in 1831. For many years, he co-edited the annual "American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge". He earned LL.D. degrees from Brown University (1847) and D... | 15,569 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
he produced an abridgment of Webster's work in 1829. Worcester believed that Webster's dictionary sacrificed tradition and elegance. Worcester's version added new words, excluded etymology, and focused on pronunciation.
Worcester published his "Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory English... | 15,570 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Massachusetts-based "Palladium" published an article that called Worcester's book "a gross plagiarism" and stated that its author "pilfer[ed] the products of the mind, as readily as... the common thief." Webster later published an open letter to Worcester in the "Palladium" dated January 25, 18... | 15,571 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Webster's death in 1843, and long after with Webster's successor, the G. & C. Merriam Company, which bought rights to the "American Dictionary".
Worcester continued to revise his dictionary, producing "A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language" in 1846. When a British edition... | 15,572 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. The dictionary featured numerous illustrations throughout the text, a relatively new innovation. However, Worcester's work was not technically the first American dictionary to feature illustrations. Having heard about the plans for Worcester's new edition, Webs... | 15,573 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
"American Dictionary", which appeared in 1864. Worcester's dictionary was posthumously revised in 1886, but was eclipsed by "Webster's International" and other dictionaries of the 1890s.
## Marriage and family.
In 1841 he married Amy Elizabeth McKean; the couple had no children. McKean, daugh... | 15,574 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
rooms to the poet and professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1843, after the house was purchased by Nathan Appleton on Longfellow's behalf, Worcester rented a portion of the house from Longfellow until the construction of his own home a few doors down was completed that spring. The home is st... | 15,575 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
"more accurate", "more harmonious and agreeable". He opposed Webster's phonetic spelling reforms (e.g. "tuf" for "tough", "dawter" for "daughter"), to Webster's disapproval. The 20th century lexicographer and scholar James Sledd noted that the commercial rivalry between the two attracted signif... | 15,576 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Though Webster's dictionary was the more popular, Worcester's book proved to be a favorite among writers. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wrote that the book was one "on which, as is well known, the literary men of this metropolis are by special statute allowed to be sworn in place of the Bible." Edw... | 15,577 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Modern, accompanied by an Historical Atlas" (1826)
- "Epitome of History" (reissue of above, 1827)
- "Outlines of Scripture Geography" (1828)
- "Johnson's Dictionary, as improved by Todd and abridged by Chalmers, with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary combined, to which is added Walker's Key" ... | 15,578 |
750211 | Joseph Emerson Worcester | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph%20Emerson%20Worcester | Joseph Emerson Worcester
Language with Pronouncing Vocabularies" (1830)
- "A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language" (1846)
- "A Gross Literary Fraud exposed; relating to the Publication of Worcester's Dictionary in London: Together with Three Appendixes; Including the Answer of S. Converse to an A... | 15,579 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods (August 3, 1824 – May 14, 1887) was a United States Circuit Judge and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court as well as an Ohio politician and soldier in the Civil War.
# Early life, education and career.
Woods was born on August 3, 1... | 15,580 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
a prominent local lawyer. Woods was admitted to the bar in 1847. He entered the firm of his mentor, King, and became his partner. He practiced law with King in Newark, from 1847 to 1862.
# Political career.
Woods, a loyal Democrat, was elected Mayor of Newark in 1856. He was next elected to the ... | 15,581 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
the Western Theater. He fought at the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg, and was breveted brigadier general.
Woods commanded his regiment under William T. Sherman during the Atlanta Campaign and the Sherman's March to the Sea. During the Carolinas Campaign, he fought with distinction at the Battle ... | 15,582 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
of law. There he bought property and cultivated cotton, hiring free African-American workers, likely as sharecroppers. He served as a Chancellor, Middle Chancery Division of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama from 1868 to 1869.
# Federal judicial career.
## Circuit Court service.
Woods was appointed ... | 15,583 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
23, 1880.
The "Slaughter-House Cases", which "tested the issue of the reach and breadth of the 14th Amendment", were the most important cases that Woods adjudicated in the lower courts. He found that a state act that created a monopoly in the slaughterhouse business violated the Privileges and Im... | 15,584 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to a seat vacated by William Strong. He was confirmed by the United States Senate, by a vote of 39 to 8, on December 21, 1880, and received commission the same day. He took the oath of office on January 5, 1881.
Woods was the first p... | 15,585 |
750190 | William Burnham Woods | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Burnham%20Woods | William Burnham Woods
er 21, 1880, and received commission the same day. He took the oath of office on January 5, 1881.
Woods was the first person to be named to the Supreme Court from a former Confederate state since 1853. But he was known as a Northerner, Union veteran, and Republican Party member, so was acceptable... | 15,586 |
750244 | Iziaslav | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iziaslav | Iziaslav
Iziaslav
Iziaslav may refer to:
- Iziaslav, Ukraine, a city
- Iziaslav Raion, a raion in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine
- Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich (born 1186)
- Iziaslav (Brutskiy) (1926–2007), primate of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
- Iziaslav of Kiev (disambiguation), several people
#... | 15,587 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (October 31, 1801 – July 1, 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.
# Biography.
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813)... | 15,588 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
of Yale 1795–1817. Jeremiah Day was the only president Yale had in between the family members. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845. After being chosen as president of Yale, he instructed students of history, political economy, political science... | 15,589 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
one of the founders of the "New Englander", chairman of the American commission for the revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible, president of the World's Evangelical Alliance at its international meeting in New York, a lifelong member and at one time president of the American Oriental So... | 15,590 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Law" (1860, many times republished)
- "Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation" (1869)
- "Religion of the Present and Future", a collections of sermons (1871)
- "Political Science" (1877)
- "Communism and Socialism" (1880)
- "Helpful Thoughts for Young Men" (1882)
# Family and legacy.
D... | 15,591 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
two brothers.
- 3. Agnes Woolsey was born June 30, 1838, married Edgar Laing Heermance (1833–1888), had three children and died in 1915.
- 4. William Walton Woolsey was born June 12, 1840, and died in the 1843 scarlet fever epidemic.
- 5. Laura Woolsey was born June 22, 1842 but died of typho... | 15,592 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
and died in 1900.
Their children were:
- 1. Mary Pritchard Woolsey born September 1, 1855, married Alfred Terry Bacon and died in 1931.
- 2. John Muirson Woolsey was born February 13, 1858 but died from typhoid fever March 13, 1861.
- 3. George Woolsey was born May 2, 1861
- 4. Edith Woolse... | 15,593 |
750205 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Theodore%20Dwight%20Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
y 13, 1858 but died from typhoid fever March 13, 1861.
- 3. George Woolsey was born May 2, 1861
- 4. Edith Woolsey was born July 2, 1864.
Dwight died July 1, 1889 in New Haven.
Dwight was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornel... | 15,594 |
750249 | William Wotherspoon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Wotherspoon | William Wotherspoon
William Wotherspoon
William Wotherspoon may refer to:
- William Wotherspoon (rugby union) (1868-1942), Scottish rugby union international
- William Wallace Wotherspoon (1850-1921), Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
- William Wallace Wotherspoon (painter) (1821-1888), American landscape painter | 15,595 |
750227 | Simple public-key infrastructure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple%20public-key%20infrastructure | Simple public-key infrastructure
Simple public-key infrastructure
Simple public key infrastructure (SPKI, pronounced "spoo-key") was an attempt to overcome the complexity of traditional X.509 public key infrastructure. It was specified in two Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request For Comments (RFC) specificat... | 15,596 |
750227 | Simple public-key infrastructure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple%20public-key%20infrastructure | Simple public-key infrastructure
pronounced "sudsy") by Ron Rivest and Butler Lampson.
# History and overview.
The original SPKI had identified principals only as public keys but allowed binding authorizations to those keys and delegation of authorization from one key to another. The encoding used was attribute:value... | 15,597 |
750227 | Simple public-key infrastructure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple%20public-key%20infrastructure | Simple public-key infrastructure
delegation of rights or other attributes from one principal to another. It includes a language for expression of authorization - a language that includes a definition of "intersection" of authorizations. It also includes the notion of threshold subject - a construct granting authorizati... | 15,598 |
750227 | Simple public-key infrastructure | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple%20public-key%20infrastructure | Simple public-key infrastructure
CA serves no useful purpose.
As a result of that, SPKI/SDSI is deployed primarily in closed solutions and in demonstration projects of academic interest. Another side-effect of this design element is that it is difficult to monetize SPKI/SDSI by itself. It can be a component of some ot... | 15,599 |
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