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750601 | Coachella Valley | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coachella%20Valley | Coachella Valley
External links.
- Coachella Valley Archaeological Society (CVAS)
- Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
- Coachella Valley Economic Partnership
- United States Bureau of Reclamation: Lower Colorado Region
- The Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy
- Desert United Soccer Club
- Coachella Vall... | 17,100 |
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tor Information
- History of Rancho Mirage and the Coachella Valley
- Groundwater Quality in Coachella Vallely, California United States Geological Survey
- Coachella Valley – An Insiders Guide
## Media.
- Press-Enterprise newspaper
- The Eagle 106.9 FM (KDGL) Classic Hits
- MIX 100.5 FM (KPSI) ... | 17,101 |
1401917 | Gömör és Kishont County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gömör%20és%20Kishont%20County | Gömör és Kishont County
Gömör és Kishont County
Gömör-Kishont (, , ) was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its capital was Rimaszombat (present-day Rimavská Sobota). Its territory is now in southern Slovakia and northern Hungary.
# Geography.
Around 1910, Gömör-Kishont county shared bor... | 17,102 |
1401917 | Gömör és Kishont County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gömör%20és%20Kishont%20County | Gömör és Kishont County
county. Its area was 4,279 km² around 1910.
# History.
The county Gömör-Kishont was a combination of the counties Gömör and Kishont. It existed from 1786 until the end of World War I, with an interruption from 1790 until 1802. Gömör is one of the oldest counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, and ... | 17,103 |
1401917 | Gömör és Kishont County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gömör%20és%20Kishont%20County | Gömör és Kishont County
states in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon. The area around Putnok became part of the Hungarian county Borsod-Gömör-Kishont (currently part of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén). The Czechoslovak part of the county was part of the Slovak Land ("Slovenská krajina/zem").
Following the provisions of the First Vie... | 17,104 |
1401917 | Gömör és Kishont County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gömör%20és%20Kishont%20County | Gömör és Kishont County
of Slovakia, and since 1996 divided between the Košice region and the Banská Bystrica region.
# Demographics.
In 1900, the county had a population of 183,784 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities:
Total:
- Hungarian: 103,660 (56.4%)
- Slovak: 74,517 (40.6%)
- Germ... | 17,105 |
1401917 | Gömör és Kishont County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gömör%20és%20Kishont%20County | Gömör és Kishont County
- Hungarian: 103,660 (56.4%)
- Slovak: 74,517 (40.6%)
- German: 4,059 (2.2%)
- Croatian: 37 (0.0%)
- Romanian: 20 (0.0%)
- Ruthenian: 10 (0.0%)
- Serbian: 1 (0.0%)
- Other or unknown: 1,480 (0.8%)
According to the census of 1900, the county was composed of the following religious communi... | 17,106 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister. The film, which was made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of the Second World War, was directed ... | 17,107 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
naval officers and seamen who served in convoy escorts. The film begins with a voice-over by Ericson (Jack Hawkins):
This is a story of the Battle of the Atlantic, the story of an ocean, two ships, and a handful of men. The men are the heroes; the heroines are the ships. The only villain is t... | 17,108 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
experience at sea. The new first lieutenant, James Bennett (Stanley Baker), is an abusive martinet.
Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship's company gains hard experience and becomes an effective fighting unit. At first their worst enemy is the weather, since German submarines lack the... | 17,109 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
officers mature and the ship crosses the Atlantic many times escorting convoys, often in brutal weather. They witness the sinking of many merchant vessels they are charged with protecting and the tragic deaths of merchant navy crewmen. A key scene involves Ericson's decision to carry out a dep... | 17,110 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
Ferraby) are picked up the next day.
Ericson is promoted commander, and together with Lockhart, his now-promoted "Number One", takes command of a new frigate, HMS "Saltash Castle". With Ericson leading an anti-submarine escort group they continue the monotonous but vital duty of convoy escort... | 17,111 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
Keith Lockhart, RNVR
- John Stratton as Sub-Lieutenant Gordon Ferraby, RNVR
- Denholm Elliott as Sub-Lieutenant (later Lieutenant) John Morell, RNVR
- John Warner as Sub-Lieutenant Baker, RNVR
- Stanley Baker as Lieutenant James Bennett, RANVR
- Bruce Seton as Petty Officer Bob Tallow (Co... | 17,112 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
Wainwright
- Dafydd Havard as Signalman Rose
- Fred Griffiths as Leading Stoker Gracey
- Laurence Hardy as Leading Radar Mechanic Sellars
- Sam Kydd as Leading Steward Carslake
- John Singer as Stoker Grey
- Barry Steele as Engine Room Artificer Broughton
- Gerard Heinz as Polish Captai... | 17,113 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
Russell Waters as ARP Warden
- Harold Jamieson as ARP Warden
- Warwick Ashton as Petty Officer Instructor
# Production.
## Casting.
Although the role of the cowardly officer Bennett was an Australian in the book, the Englishman Donald Sinden was originally screen-tested for the part and t... | 17,114 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
brief scenes showing Petty Officer Tallow coming home on leave were filmed in Stepney, London. The crane jibs above the houses in the background were edited in as in reality, the docks were over a mile away.
Donald Sinden (playing Lockhart) suffered in real life from negative buoyancy, meanin... | 17,115 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
of British sailors who are struggling in the water, hoping to be rescued. Ericson, faced with an appalling choice, drops the depth charges that will destroy the enemy but will also kill his countrymen. Yet for all his professionalism he is a human being and he later gets paralytically drunk an... | 17,116 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
after another viewing, it was decided that a little emotion was needed after all; the scene was re-shot with just an odd tear or two and again the verdict was that it was now dead right. Hawkins was amused to note that in the final version of the film, the original first take was used.
In his... | 17,117 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
and was awaiting a tow back to England and the breaker's yard. "Compass Rose" carries the pennant number "K49", which was in reality the number of HMS "Crocus".
"Saltash Castle" was portrayed by , pennant F362, as in the film. Although she had been paid off in 1947, she was held in reserve un... | 17,118 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
HMS "Rockhampton" in the John Wayne film "The Sea Chase".) In the film, when boarding their new ship, the characters of Ericson and Lockhart remark that neither of them have heard of a castle in Saltash – in reality there is no such thing, although there are a number of fortifications in the l... | 17,119 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
a couple of miles offshore, a number of conflicting tidal streams and a sandbank provide predictable, albeit often dangerous, large waves and a disturbed sea. Ships usually deliberately avoid the Portland Race but "Compass Rose" was taken straight through during the peak of the tide to get the... | 17,120 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
Studios was being sold to the BBC, Sir Michael Balcon was asked what had been his greatest achievement during his tenure. He replied "I think perhaps "The Cruel Sea" because when we saw that for the first time, we realised that we really had brought it off. It seemed to just gel and be absolut... | 17,121 |
1401912 | The Cruel Sea (1953 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Cruel%20Sea%20(1953%20film) | The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
because when we saw that for the first time, we realised that we really had brought it off. It seemed to just gel and be absolutely right. Sometimes you don't get that feeling, but with that one we all did."
"Halliwell's Film Guide" described the film as a "competent transcription of a bestse... | 17,122 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
Panasonic Wild Knights
Panasonic Wild Knights (formerly Sanyo) is a Japanese rugby union team based in Ōta city, Gunma prefecture which plays in the Top League. Inspired by Tony Brown at fly half (though he was not captain), it dominated the league in the fifth season and was the first team to b... | 17,123 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
in their history when they travelled to South Korea to face a number of University and company teams there. In 1971 they won their first ever Kantō Rugby Championship, after arising from the 4th division only 9 years earlier. This success was followed the next season with a successive championshi... | 17,124 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
Kantō and Tōhoku. Rugby in Japan was a growing sport, gradually gaining popularity and competitiveness outside of its normal strongholds in company break-rooms and college campuses. Although still nominally amateur, the Wild Knights nonetheless used their position in the Toshiba corporation to hi... | 17,125 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
was officially unveiled.
## Early Top League Era (2003 to 2012).
In 2003 the Japan Rugby Football Union launched the Top League, Japan's first nationwide domestic rugby competition. Held annually between September and February, the Top League would mark a new future for the sport in Japan and a... | 17,126 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
Wild Knights fans were also awarded the Japan Special Award for their support and atmosphere. The club's starting scrum-half Wataru Ikeda was also chosen for the league Best XV that year.
The following season seemed to mirror the first, as the Wild Knights fans were again awarded the Special Awa... | 17,127 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
out in the playoffs. However, the club's success was mirrored in the fact that Naoki Kawamata, Shota Horie, Seiichi Shimomura, Tomonori Kitagawa and Atsushi Tatanabe selected in the league's Best XV. Fullback Atsushi Tatanabe was also crowned the league's top scorer and best kicker for 2009.
In ... | 17,128 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
Wild Knights, the name they currently bear. The team colours were switched from red and black to predominantly blue and black.
In 2014, Head Coach Norifumi Nakajima left the club on the back of a historic double championship Top League and All-Japan Rugby Football Championship during the 2013–14... | 17,129 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
All-Japan Champions: 2008, 2011
# Personnel.
## Current squad.
The current Panasonic Wild Knights is:
## Past.
- Epi Taione - Tongan Centre/Wing/Flanker who has played for Newcastle, Sale and more recently Super Rugby side
- Semi Taupeaafe - former Wallabies sevens, New South Wales Waratahs... | 17,130 |
1401926 | Panasonic Wild Knights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panasonic%20Wild%20Knights | Panasonic Wild Knights
ent Panasonic Wild Knights is:
## Past.
- Epi Taione - Tongan Centre/Wing/Flanker who has played for Newcastle, Sale and more recently Super Rugby side
- Semi Taupeaafe - former Wallabies sevens, New South Wales Waratahs and Tongan international
- Sinali Latu - now coach of Daito Bunka Univer... | 17,131 |
1401941 | Morley rank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morley%20rank | Morley rank
Morley rank
In mathematical logic, Morley rank, introduced by , is a means of measuring the size of a subset of a model of a theory, generalizing the notion of dimension in algebraic geometry.
# Definition.
Fix a theory "T" with a model "M". The Morley rank of a formula φ defining a definable subset "S" ... | 17,132 |
1401941 | Morley rank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morley%20rank | Morley rank
For α a non-zero limit ordinal, the Morley rank is at least α if it is at least β for all β less than α.
The Morley rank is then defined to be α if it is at least α but not at least "α" + 1, and is defined to be ∞ if it is at least α for all ordinals α, and is defined to be −1 if "S" is empty.
For a subse... | 17,133 |
1401941 | Morley rank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morley%20rank | Morley rank
A formula defining a finite set has Morley rank 0. A formula with Morley rank 1 and Morley degree 1 is called strongly minimal. A strongly minimal structure is one where the trivial formula "x" = "x" is strongly minimal. Morley rank and strongly minimal structures are key tools in the proof of Morley's cate... | 17,134 |
1401941 | Morley rank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morley%20rank | Morley rank
The Morley degree of "V" is the number of irreducible components of maximal dimension; this is not the same as its degree in algebraic geometry, except when its components of maximal dimension are linear spaces.
- The rational numbers, considered as an ordered set, has Morley rank ∞, as it contains a count... | 17,135 |
1401941 | Morley rank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Morley%20rank | Morley rank
int union of definable subsets isomorphic to itself.
# See also.
- Cherlin–Zilber conjecture
- Group of finite Morley rank
- U-rank
# References.
- Alexandre Borovik, A. Nesin, "Groups of finite Morley rank", Oxford Univ. Press (1994)
- B. Hart Stability theory and its variants (2000) pp. 131–148 in ... | 17,136 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
Johann Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.
# Career.
Nestroy was born in Vienna, where he was a law student from 1817 to 1822, before ... | 17,137 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
He then returned to his native Vienna and started to write and continued to perform.
Nestroy's career as a playwright was an immediate success: his 1833 play "Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus" was a major hit. He soon became a leading figure in Austrian culture and society. Nestroy succeeded Ferdinand R... | 17,138 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
was legendary, and his characters often mixed Viennese German with less-than-successful attempts at more "educated" speech. Music held an important role in his work, with songs elaborating the theme or helping on with the plot.
Nestroy wrote nearly eighty comedies between the 1830s and the 1850s. Among ... | 17,139 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
closely with a relatively small number of composers: , who set 41 of Nestroy's texts between 1832 and 1847, Michael Hebenstreit, who set 10 works from 1843 to 1850, , who set seven from 1851 to 1859, as well as , Franz Roser, Carl Franz Stenzel, and Andreas Skutta.
Most of his works were designated as s... | 17,140 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
four Quodlibets, two Burlesken, a Travestie and finally an Operette using music by Jacques Offenbach.
His early works were performed in Graz and Pressburg, then from 1832 to 1846 he worked exclusively at the Theater an der Wien, where 45 of his plays were premiered. After two productions at the Theater ... | 17,141 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
theatregoers. It has become a classic more than once. It was first adapted as Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" (which later became the musical "Hello, Dolly!") and later achieved success as "On the Razzle", which was translated by Stephen Plaice and adapted by Tom Stoppard.
Nestroy has a square—Nestro... | 17,142 |
1401924 | Johann Nestroy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johann%20Nestroy | Johann Nestroy
ohann Nestroy". The official name of the newly built bridge is probably "Johann Nestroy Brücke", but that name doesn't seem to have any currency.
One of the most important German speaking theatre awards is named after Nestroy. The is an annual award for primarily Austrian theatre with Oscar-like categor... | 17,143 |
1401947 | Joe Preston (bassist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Preston%20(bassist) | Joe Preston (bassist)
Joe Preston (bassist)
Joe Preston (born 1969) is an American rock music bassist and a former band member of Earth, Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))), and has a solo project called Thrones. In 2007, he joined Harvey Milk in the studi... | 17,144 |
1401947 | Joe Preston (bassist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Preston%20(bassist) | Joe Preston (bassist)
"Night Goat" single (1992 Amphetamine Reptile Records)
- "Joe Preston" CD/EP (1992 Boner Records)
## Thrones.
- Untitled demo cassette (1994 Punk In My Vitamins? Records)
- "Alraune" CD (1996 The Communion Label)
- "The Suckling" 7" (1995 Kill Rock Stars)
- "Reddleman" 7" (1999 Punk In My Vi... | 17,145 |
1401947 | Joe Preston (bassist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Preston%20(bassist) | Joe Preston (bassist)
Records)
## Harvey Milk.
- "Life... The Best Game in Town" (2008 Hydra Head Records)
## The Need.
- "Jacky O' Lantern" 7" single (1997 Outpunk Records)
- "The Need" CD/LP (1997 Chainsaw Records)
- "The Need w/Joe Preston & DJ Zena" 10" EP (1998 Up Records)
- "The Need Is Dead" CD (2000 Chai... | 17,146 |
1401947 | Joe Preston (bassist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Preston%20(bassist) | Joe Preston (bassist)
Lord Records) (appears on "Belülrol Pusztít" playing Jackhammer)
- "Monoliths & Dimensions" CD/2xLP (2006 Southern Lord Records) (Male choir)
## High on Fire.
- "Blessed Black Wings" (2005 Relapse Records)
- Split with Ruins 7"/comic book (2005 Skin Graft Records/Relapse Records)
## Witchypoo... | 17,147 |
1401947 | Joe Preston (bassist) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Preston%20(bassist) | Joe Preston (bassist)
ill Rock Stars)
- Godheadsilo – "The Scientific Supercake" CD/LP ( Kill Rock Stars)
- Godheadsilo – "Skyward in Triumph" CD/LP
- Godheadsilo – "Booby Trap" 7"
- Godheadsilo – "Thee Friendship Village" EP
- The Hoodwinks – "Stab, Stab, Stab" CD/LP ( Thin the Herd Records)
- Loud Machine 0.5 –... | 17,148 |
1401964 | Frank Costin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Costin | Frank Costin
Frank Costin
Francis Albert "Frank" Costin (8 June 1920 – 5 February 1995) was an automotive engineer who advanced monocoque chassis design and was instrumental in adapting aircraft aerodynamic knowledge for automobile use.
# Career.
Costin was an engineer with the de Havilland Aircraft Company when, in... | 17,149 |
1401964 | Frank Costin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Costin | Frank Costin
1956, when Chapman was commissioned by Tony Vandervell to design a Grand Prix racing car to challenge Maserati and Ferrari dominance of the formula, Chapman recommended Costin to Vandervell as the body designer. Costin designed the body for the Vanwall that won the first Grand Prix Constructors' Championsh... | 17,150 |
1401964 | Frank Costin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Costin | Frank Costin
where he contributed to the early aerodynamic designs; Marcos, which he co-founded with Jem Marsh ("MAR"sh and "COS"tin); and racecar chassis for Maserati, Lotus, and DTV. He also designed the Costin Amigo, the TMC Costin, and the Costin Sports Roadster. He also created an ultra-light glider with Keith Duc... | 17,151 |
1401964 | Frank Costin | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20Costin | Frank Costin
designs; Marcos, which he co-founded with Jem Marsh ("MAR"sh and "COS"tin); and racecar chassis for Maserati, Lotus, and DTV. He also designed the Costin Amigo, the TMC Costin, and the Costin Sports Roadster. He also created an ultra-light glider with Keith Duckworth, an old friend and his brother's busine... | 17,152 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
Porphyry of Gaza
Saint Porphyry (; , "Porphyrios"; Slavonic: Порфирий, "Porfiriy"; –420) was bishop of Gaza from 395 to 420, known, from the account in his "Life", for Christianizing the recalcitrant pagan city of Gaza, and demolishing its temples.
Porphyry of Gaza is known only from a vivid biograph... | 17,153 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
events characteristic of this literary form. On the other hand, the author was certainly intimately familiar with Gaza in late Antiquity, and his statements are of interest for reflecting 5th century attitudes. A street in the village of Zejtun, Malta, bears his name.
# The account in "Vita Porphyrii"... | 17,154 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
safe distance, and the Christian bishops of the 4th century were specifically termed "bishops of the churches about Gaza". The Christian community in Gaza then scarcely numbered 280, according to the "vita" of St. Porphyry, and the community-at-large resisted the closing of temples and destruction of p... | 17,155 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
Further harassment followed (Vita 21, 25) with the support of local officials.
In response, St. Porphyry sent Marcus, his deacon and chronicler, to Constantinople in 398 to obtain an order to close the pagan temples of Gaza. An official named Hilarius duly arrived with soldiers to close the temples, b... | 17,156 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
together they convinced the Empress Eudoxia, who was the dominant force at the court of Arcadius, to prevail upon the Emperor and obtain from him a decree for the destruction of the pagan temples at Gaza. Cynegius, a special imperial envoy, executed the decree in May, 402. Eight temples, those of Aphro... | 17,157 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
visited every house, seizing and burning the idols and private libraries as "books of magic".
The Marneion, a temple sacred to Zeus Marnas, who was the local Hellenistic incarnation of Dagon, the patron of agriculture, a god who had been worshipped in the Levant since the third millennium BCE, was set... | 17,158 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
of the god Marnas, which the "Vita" describes with a mixture of pride and abhorrence. it was believed that the 'Olympian' Emperor who founded the great temple of Zeus on the sacred mountain Gerizim of the Samaritans would not be slow to recognize the claims of the "Cretan Zeus" of the Gazaeans. After t... | 17,159 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
the "Vita Porphyrii".
The text exists in a Greek and a Georgian recension.
Grégoire and Kugener (1930), the editors of the "Vita Porphyrii", reviewed the challenges to the integrity of the work and summarized the previous scholarship. These included the lack of other attestation to major figures, inc... | 17,160 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
particular each mention of John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, replacing it with the name of Praylius, his successor as bishop of Jerusalem in the time of Porphyrius".
Paul Peeters (1941) published the Georgian texts and showed that they depended on a lost Syriac original that must have been written in the ... | 17,161 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
He adds that "the text abounds with such convincing historical detail and shows such an intimate knowledge of the region of Gaza in late antiquity, that at the very least the general storyline merits our confidence." (2001:56) But he acknowledges that Porphyry is otherwise undocumented in the historica... | 17,162 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
conclusion (1984:87). "The "vita" "comes to be routinely cited as real history by all sorts of fine scholars" writes Ramsay MacMullen in "Christianizing the Roman Empire", 1984, p 86. "There is a strong temptation to use it because it is so full, specific and vivid." He concludes that "it should be pos... | 17,163 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
who was found worthy to serve Thee, free us from all sin. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
# References.
- Thomas F. Head, "Medieval Hagiography: an anthology", (Routledge) 2001.
- Ramsay MacMullen... | 17,164 |
1401944 | Porphyry of Gaza | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Porphyry%20of%20Gaza | Porphyry of Gaza
world without end. Amen.
# References.
- Thomas F. Head, "Medieval Hagiography: an anthology", (Routledge) 2001.
- Ramsay MacMullen, "Christianizing the Roman Empire", (Yale University Press) 1984.
# External links.
- Medieval Sourcebook: G.F. Hill, 1913. Translator and editor, Mark the Deacon, "L... | 17,165 |
1401983 | Doner Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doner%20Company | Doner Company
Doner Company
Doner Company (formerly W.B. Doner & Co.) is an American advertising agency headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. It was founded in 1937 by Wilfred Doner, better known as Brod Doner. The Doner Company also has a United Kingdom-based agency called Doner London.
# History.
The company open... | 17,166 |
1401983 | Doner Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doner%20Company | Doner Company
ndent advertising agent and has long been one of the largest. After a fire destroyed its office in Southfield in 1996, it re-emerged as an international company and expanded its reach to clients outside of the United States.
In April 2012, Doner sold a minority interest to MDC Partners.
# Campaigns.
W.... | 17,167 |
1401981 | Mary Dimmick Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary%20Dimmick%20Harrison | Mary Dimmick Harrison
Mary Dimmick Harrison
Mary Dimmick Harrison (April 30, 1858 – January 5, 1948) was the second wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison. She was nearly 25 years younger than Harrison, and was the niece of his first wife.
# Biography.
Born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, as Mary Sco... | 17,168 |
1401981 | Mary Dimmick Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary%20Dimmick%20Harrison | Mary Dimmick Harrison
after their marriage, leaving her a widow at age 23. A niece of Caroline Harrison, she in 1889 moved into the White House to serve as assistant to the First Lady. Sometime after Mrs. Harrison's death in 1892, the former president and Mrs. Dimmick fell in love and late in 1895 announced their engag... | 17,169 |
1401981 | Mary Dimmick Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary%20Dimmick%20Harrison | Mary Dimmick Harrison
man. Without a honeymoon, the couple settled in Indianapolis.
Together, the Harrisons had one daughter:
- Elizabeth (Harrison) Walker (1897–1955), a lawyer. Born in Indianapolis, she graduated from New York University School of Law in 1919. In 1922, she married James Blaine Walker, grandnephew o... | 17,170 |
1401981 | Mary Dimmick Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary%20Dimmick%20Harrison | Mary Dimmick Harrison
widely: to Venezuela, where Harrison played a role in settling a boundary dispute, and to the First Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899. Benjamin Harrison died on March 13, 1901. Mrs. Harrison survived the former president by nearly half a century. Arden Davis Melick reveals that "Mary Dimmick H... | 17,171 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Limited was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek at its confluence with the River Thames, at Leamouth Wharf (often referred to as Blackwall) on the west side and at ... | 17,172 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
as the Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding Company, founded by shipwright Thomas J. Ditchburn and the engineer and naval architect Charles John Mare. Originally located at Deptford, after a fire destroyed their yard the company moved to Orchard Place in 1838, between the East India... | 17,173 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
vessels and by 1840 were building ships of more than 300 tons. The company's early customers included the Iron Steamboat Company and the Blackwall Railway Company, several paddle steamers being constructed for the latter, including the "Meteor" and the "Prince of Wales", which ... | 17,174 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
of C.J. Mare and Company. He was joined by naval architect James Ash, who later began his own shipyard at Cubitt Town.
From 1847 the company grew considerably and Mare purchased land on the Canning Town side of the River Lea, a ferry service being established between the two s... | 17,175 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
becoming a naval troopship.
In 1855, the company which by now had more than 3000 employees, was threatened with closure following Mare's bankruptcy. It is thought by some that his financial difficulties arose from delays in payment for completed work or, alternatively, that th... | 17,176 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
was Peter Rolt, Mare's father-in-law and Conservative MP for Greenwich. Rolt was also a timber merchant and a descendant of the Pett shipbuilding family. He was supported in the venture by another company director, Lord Alan Spencer-Churchill.
Rolt took control of the company'... | 17,177 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Large scale Ordnance Survey maps of the 1860s show the yard occupying a large triangular site in a right-angled bend on the east bank of Bow Creek with the railway to Thames Wharf on the third side, and with a smaller site on the west bank. The main yard had a quay 1,050 feet (... | 17,178 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
was for HMS "Warrior", launched in 1860, at the time the world's largest warship and the first iron-hulled armoured frigate. HMS "Minotaur" followed in 1863, long and 10,690 tons displacement.
Work on vessels such as "Minotaur" was performed on the Canning Town side of the Lea... | 17,179 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
closed following the 1866 financial crisis. Of the survivors, those like the Thames Ironworks were specialised in warships and liners.
Following the success of HMS "Warrior" and HMS "Minotaur", orders were placed by navies all over the world, and vessels were built for Denmark... | 17,180 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Navy a class of three small 45-ton gunboats, a class of three medium 116-ton gunboats and a class of eight 50-ton torpedo boats.
In the 1890s philanthropist Arnold Hills became the managing director. He had originally joined the board of directors in 1880 at the age of 23. Hil... | 17,181 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
the Thames Ironworks F.C. was wound up in June 1900 and West Ham United F.C. was formed a month later.
Merged with the engine builder John Penn and Sons in 1899 as the Thames Iron Works, Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.
During its lifetime the yard produced 144 warships and n... | 17,182 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
construction of Crossrail in 2012.
# Notable products.
- In the 1850s the company produced iron work for I.K. Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar at Saltash.
- HMS "Warrior", launched in 1860, the world's first all-iron warship. When completed in October 1861, "Warri... | 17,183 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
yard, HMS "Thunderer" (22,500 tons), was launched in 1911.
# Links to West Ham United Football Club.
Employees at the Thames Ironworks formed a works football team, called Thames Ironworks Football Club. This club was later renamed West Ham United, whose emblem of the crossed... | 17,184 |
1401891 | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thames%20Ironworks%20and%20Shipbuilding%20Company | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
s "The Hammers" for this reason.
While the media and the general football world commonly refer to the club as The Hammers, the club's own supporters have always referred to their team as 'The Irons', which again comes from the link with Thames Ironworks. The chant 'Come on you... | 17,185 |
1401989 | List of Peruvian steam frigates | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Peruvian%20steam%20frigates | List of Peruvian steam frigates
List of Peruvian steam frigates
This is a list of Peruvian steam frigates of the period 1852-1881: | 17,186 |
1401993 | Granite Peak (Montana) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Granite%20Peak%20(Montana) | Granite Peak (Montana)
Granite Peak (Montana)
Granite Peak, at an elevation of above sea level, is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the tenth highest state high point in the nation. It lies within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, in Park County very near the borders of Stillwater County... | 17,187 |
1401993 | Granite Peak (Montana) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Granite%20Peak%20(Montana) | Granite Peak (Montana)
R.T. Ferguson on August 29, 1923 after several failed attempts by others. It was the last of the state highpoints to be climbed. Today, climbers typically spend two or three days ascending the peak, stopping over on the Froze-to-Death Plateau, although some climbers choose to ascend the peak in a... | 17,188 |
1402006 | Ateneo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ateneo | Ateneo
Ateneo
Ateneo may refer to:
# Cultural institutions.
- Ateneo de la Juventud, a society of Mexican writers, philosophers and intellectuals
- Ateneo de Madrid, a private cultural institution located in the capital of Spain
- Ateneo de Ponce, a nonprofit, civic, organization in Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Ateneo Pu... | 17,189 |
1402006 | Ateneo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ateneo | Ateneo
ch universities.
- Ateneo de Davao University
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Ateneo Blue Eagles, a collegiate basketball team
- Ateneo de Naga University
- Ateneo de Zamboanga University
- Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
## Non-tertiary Schools.
- Sacred Heart School – Ateneo de Cebu
- Ateneo de ... | 17,190 |
1402012 | It's Your Choice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It's%20Your%20Choice | It's Your Choice
It's Your Choice
It's Your Choice - Unreleased Live Material From The Your Choice Live Series is a compilation album of unreleased live performances, mostly in the punk genre. It was released in 1991 through Your Choice Records.
# Notes.
This compilation contains songs that were left off the first w... | 17,191 |
1401986 | Marcel Masse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel%20Masse | Marcel Masse
Marcel Masse
Marcel Masse, (May 27, 1936 – August 25, 2014) was a Canadian politician. He served as a Quebec MLA, federal MP and federal cabinet minister.
# Biography.
## Background.
Masse was educated at the Université de Montréal and pursued graduate work in Paris. He worked as a high school teacher ... | 17,192 |
1401986 | Marcel Masse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel%20Masse | Marcel Masse
in 1970. He was a leadership candidate at the party convention of 1971, but lost by 21 votes. He left the Union Nationale to sit as an independent until his term expired in 1973. In 1974, Masse was hired by the engineering firm Lavalin as an administrator.
## Federal politics.
He attempted to win a seat ... | 17,193 |
1401986 | Marcel Masse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel%20Masse | Marcel Masse
25, 1985, during an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of alleged overspending during his election campaign. He returned to Cabinet on November 30 after being cleared of any wrongdoing.
As Communications Minister, Masse was responsible for Canada's cultural policy. He argued against measur... | 17,194 |
1401986 | Marcel Masse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel%20Masse | Marcel Masse
of the Free Trade Agreement.
In 1991, Masse became Minister of National Defence. He resigned from cabinet in January 1993 along with a number of other ministers who were not intending to run in the 1993 election.
## Retirement.
Since leaving federal politics Masse, a moderate Quebec nationalist, has ser... | 17,195 |
1401986 | Marcel Masse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcel%20Masse | Marcel Masse
teen regional committees that held public hearings on Quebec independence in 1995 in the run up to the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty. He served as president of the "Conseil de la langue française du Québec" in 1995, and as Quebec's delegate-general in France from 1996 to 1997. He has also served as... | 17,196 |
1402016 | Linear aeration | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linear%20aeration | Linear aeration
Linear aeration
Linear aeration is a relatively new aeration process; it allows water to penetrate the soil and to be retained in the proper amounts. Linear aeration also adds organic nutrition, soil softeners (humus, topsoil, compost, sand, clay, etc.) if necessary.
# Gardens.
In linear aeration, th... | 17,197 |
1402016 | Linear aeration | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Linear%20aeration | Linear aeration
ary organic matter is added on top of the turf. Next, grooves are cut into the turf to let the soil additives enter the soil; the grooves are recovered in the same passage.
# Benefits of linear aeration.
## Gardens.
- irrigation water conservation.
- promotes stronger and deeper root development, fo... | 17,198 |
1402017 | Salad of a Thousand Delights | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salad%20of%20a%20Thousand%20Delights | Salad of a Thousand Delights
Salad of a Thousand Delights
Salad of a Thousand Delights is a home video by the Melvins, which was released in 1992 through Box Dog Video. Recorded live at the North Shore Surf Club, Olympia, Washington, May 16, 1991. The video was rereleased on DVD (90 mins) in 2003.
# Track listing.
-... | 17,199 |
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