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420406 | Princes Street | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princes%20Street | Princes Street
its open vista.
# Transport.
## Road.
Only the eastern third of Princes Street is open to general traffic. The main length is restricted to trams, buses, taxis and cyclists only.
## Rail.
Edinburgh Waverley railway station lies at the eastern end of Princes Street.
## Tram.
The Princes Street tram... | 20,000 |
420406 | Princes Street | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princes%20Street | Princes Street
Princes Street after the street in Edinburgh. Dunedin is the Gaelic form of Edinburgh's name (Dun Eidann) and many of Dunedin's streets duplicate Edinburgh street names.
- In 1970, James H. Howe composed a march for military band, called "Pride of Princes Street."
- A stone run on East Falkland in the ... | 20,001 |
420406 | Princes Street | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princes%20Street | Princes Street
2010 film "The Illusionist" features animated scenes depicting Princes Street as it was in the late 1950s.
# Famous Residents.
The street was originally built as a residential street and for the first 70 years held several notable residents:
- 1 - Richard Poole (physician)
- 2 - John Croall, famous c... | 20,002 |
420406 | Princes Street | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princes%20Street | Princes Street
animated scenes depicting Princes Street as it was in the late 1950s.
# Famous Residents.
The street was originally built as a residential street and for the first 70 years held several notable residents:
- 1 - Richard Poole (physician)
- 2 - John Croall, famous coach-builder
- 17 - Alexander Cowan'... | 20,003 |
420431 | Dead letter mail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead%20letter%20mail | Dead letter mail
Dead letter mail
Dead letter mail or undeliverable mail is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to the sender. This is usually due to lack of compliance with postal regulations, an incomplete address and return address, or the inability to forward the mail when both correspondent... | 20,004 |
420431 | Dead letter mail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead%20letter%20mail | Dead letter mail
been impeded. Being internal departments within postal administrations, little information about the dead letter office function has ever been made public. A few journal articles and at least one recently published book (Canadian) dealing with this topic have appeared.
Classification as a dead letter ... | 20,005 |
420431 | Dead letter mail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead%20letter%20mail | Dead letter mail
which turned up in a United States Postal Service sorting center in Topeka, Kansas.
With increased collection and study of the postal markings originating from such offices, the body of literature on this obscure topic may grow. Many countries, including Canada and the United States, have issued speci... | 20,006 |
420431 | Dead letter mail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead%20letter%20mail | Dead letter mail
offices, the body of literature on this obscure topic may grow. Many countries, including Canada and the United States, have issued special labels for envelopes that have travelled through the dead letter office. Genuinely used examples are highly prized by collectors, although mint labels, because the... | 20,007 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
USS Carbonero (SS-337)
USS "Carbonero" (SS/AGSS-337) was a "Balao"-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the carbonero, a salt-water fish found in the West Indies. Her keel was laid down on 16 December 1943 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. ... | 20,008 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
war patrol, conducted off Formosa from 26 May to 8 July, was devoted to lifeguard duty, standing by for possible rescue of aviators downed in aircraft carrier strikes. After refitting at Subic Bay, "Carbonero" cleared for the Gulf of Siam on 4 August, and cruising off the east coast of the Malay ... | 20,009 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
was assigned to the Submarine Guided Missile Program, joining her sister ship (SS-348) as a control vessel operating out of San Diego, California, and Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California. Assigned to the Regulus Missile Program, "Carbonero" was redesignated an Auxiliary Submarin... | 20,010 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
and the evaluation of Regulus missile guidance equipment.
On 13 May 1957, her home port shifted to Pearl Harbor. In July 1959, "Carbonero" became the flagship of Submarine Division 12. From that time forward "Carbonero" took part in local operations in Hawaiian waters plus deployments to the Wes... | 20,011 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
returned to the standard "Fleet Snorkel" configuration, and was redesignated an Attack Submarine (SS-337).
# 1962–1970.
"Carbonero" participated in the 1962 nuclear tests in the Central Pacific off Christmas Island and Johnston Island entitled Operation Dominic. She was on hand for the detonati... | 20,012 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
repair at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
"Carbonero" also participated in the Project SHAD Biological tests 65-6 Big Tom, 66-13 Half Note, and 68-71 Folded Arrow. During these tests, Bacillus globigii was released from the USS Carbonero using a submarine-biological-disseminator. Aerosol sampling w... | 20,013 |
420427 | USS Carbonero (SS-337) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Carbonero%20(SS-337) | USS Carbonero (SS-337)
Oahu, Hawaii and Kaneohe Marine Corps
Air Station.
"Carbonero" was decommissioned on 1 December 1970. On 27 April 1975, she was taken to sea for one last time and used as a test target for a Mark 48 torpedo fired by the submarine off Hawaii.
# Awards.
"Carbonero" received the following awards... | 20,014 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
Ockham, Surrey
Ockham is a rural and semi-rural village in the borough of Guildford in Surrey, England. The village starts immediately east of the A3 but the lands extend to the River Wey in the west where it has a large mill-house. Ockham is between Cobham (near Leatherhead) and East Horsley (near Guil... | 20,015 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
by Richard Fitz Gilbert, its domesday assets were: 1½ hides, 1 church, 2 fisheries worth 10d, 3 ploughs, of meadow, woodland worth 60 hogs. It rendered £10 per year to its overlords.
All Saints' Church is a Grade I listed building. The foundations were laid in the 12th century, and part of the nave was ... | 20,016 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
no high nobles among its owners. However it is the birthplace of William of Ockham the famous mediaeval philosopher and the proponent of Occam's razor.
Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, lived briefly at Ockham Park before settling at Horsley Towers, which her husband the 1st Earl of Lovelace built in the ... | 20,017 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
parish of Woking.
An act of charity in the village assisted one family in the 'Underground Railroad' in the US that resulted from the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. After reaching Liverpool in 1850, following an arduous journey starting with a flight to freedom from Macon, Georgia, African-American slaves ... | 20,018 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
Co-Operative Farm School, modelled after the Ockham School.
# Geology.
The soil of Ockham Common varies between fertile light clay and humus topsoil to highly acidic, sandy heath. In the north is the high, uneroded Bagshot Sand. The southern part of the parish is on the London Clay. Part of the Wey Val... | 20,019 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
converted ones in Old Woking and that of the Surrey Advertiser millhouse in Guildford, Ockham mill is dated 1862 and is a Grade II listed building. It is of four storeys red stock brick with decorative brick and tile bands over each floor. Providing unusual quirkiness, it has brick-dentilled eaves over i... | 20,020 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
as a satellite fit-out and flight test centre for Vickers and latterly the British Aircraft Corporation, linked to their main factory and airfield at nearby Brooklands, Weybridge, capable of taking aircraft as large as the VC10.
Although the airfield is disused, the aviation connection remains: it is th... | 20,021 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
those who gave their lives in the Great War and World War II
## Martyrs Green.
This small linear settlement is a hamlet to the east of the village, near Downside and Cobham. It has the village's only pub; "The Black Swan".
# Sports.
Ockham has cricket and football clubs that play at weekends at Hautb... | 20,022 |
420418 | Ockham, Surrey | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ockham,%20Surrey | Ockham, Surrey
f households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
# Name... | 20,023 |
420433 | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville,%201st%20Duke%20of%20Buckingham%20and%20Chandos | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (20 March 1776 – 17 January 1839), styled Earl Temple from 1784 to ... | 20,024 |
420433 | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville,%201st%20Duke%20of%20Buckingham%20and%20Chandos | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Oxford, where he matriculated in 1791.
# Political career.
Earl Temple, as he was known in his father's lifetime, was elected Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire in 1797. In 1806 he was made a Privy Counsellor and appointed Vice-... | 20,025 |
420433 | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville,%201st%20Duke%20of%20Buckingham%20and%20Chandos | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Eliza Mary, and Marquess of Chandos and Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, with normal remainder to heirs male. He returned to ministerial office in July 1830 when he was made Lord Steward of the Household, but only held the post for a sho... | 20,026 |
420433 | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville,%201st%20Duke%20of%20Buckingham%20and%20Chandos | Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
rties in the Old Nichol. Nicknames such as "Lord Grenville's fat nephew", Ph D ("Phat Duke"), and the "gros Marquis", attested to his size and unpopularity.
# Family.
In April 1796, aged 20, the then Earl Temple married the Lady Anne ... | 20,027 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
Guy Hever
Guy Hever (; born 30 May 1977) is an Israeli MIA. Hever, a soldier in the Israeli Army, has been missing since August 17, 1997. He was last seen on his army base at 9:30 AM on the Golan Heights, dressed in his army fatigues, carrying his weapon, a Galil AR, his military disk and his international m... | 20,028 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
of supplies, an order he refused to carry out, and accordingly received a court martial summoning for insubordination. On Sunday morning, he finished his guard duty at 9:15 AM and was last seen at 9:30 AM buying a can of Coca-Cola, still in his uniform and with rifle in hand, then leaving the base without per... | 20,029 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
was ever found. They refused to classify Hever as a missing soldier for three years. His mother however was convinced from the beginning that her son was kidnapped by Syrian forces, although the Syrian government consistently ignored overtures from former US president Jimmy Carter, former Israeli and Syrian U... | 20,030 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
border, and a German woman wrote to Hever's mother in 2005 claiming to have seen Hever being interrogated in Damascus. She had previously alerted the IDF of this, but had been ignored.
# Developments.
On February 13, 2007, a Syrian organization calling itself "The Resistance Committees for the Release of th... | 20,031 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The premier pledged that a special point-man would be named to oversee the activity undertaken by the various defense agencies in the state in finding her missing son.
In August 2009, Rina Hever also met with Israel's Foreign Ministry director general Yossi Gal. The mother, who i... | 20,032 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
Lavrov in which Jerusalem communicated its desire to obtain any information that Syria may possess on Hever. While it is not clear if the soldier is in Syria, the move represents a significant change in Israel's official policy in the case. The goal of the campaign is to determine whether Syria can provide in... | 20,033 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
avail.
In 2016, the IDF made another search, this time on land, but found no trace of Hever. The army also followed up on a lead from a psychic medium, and found human remains and clothes of a different individual in the Golan.
In 2017, the IDF raided a home for the mentally ill in the southern city of Raha... | 20,034 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
Dr. Danny Kaplan this is due to a number of factors: his role as a combat soldier, the social status of his family, and officials entertaining the possibility of Hever crossing over to Syria that has made it easier to add Hever to the more "valued" group of soldiers that are missing behind enemy lines.
# Ext... | 20,035 |
420449 | Guy Hever | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy%20Hever | Guy Hever
r, the social status of his family, and officials entertaining the possibility of Hever crossing over to Syria that has made it easier to add Hever to the more "valued" group of soldiers that are missing behind enemy lines.
# External links.
- Homepage dedicated to Guy Hever
- Website built by the Hever Fa... | 20,036 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
Foshay Tower
The Foshay Tower, now the W Minneapolis – The Foshay hotel, is a skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Modeled after the Washington Monument, the building was completed in 1929, months before the stock market crash in October of that year. It has 32 floors and stands high, plus an antenna mas... | 20,037 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
push skyward, as the tower was the first in the city to surpass the height of Minneapolis City Hall, completed in 1906. It remained the tallest building in Minneapolis until the IDS Center surpassed it in 1972.
# Structure and interior.
As the building was designed to echo the Washington Monument, the si... | 20,038 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
to seventeen stories on the 2nd Avenue side and entirely obscures the views from the windows of the first seven stories of the Foshay Tower on the 2nd Avenue and 8th Street sides. Internally the building uses steel and reinforced concrete. The exterior is faced with Indiana limestone, while the interior fe... | 20,039 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
is visible in concrete four times on the exterior of the building (once on the top and three times on the street level).
# Dedication.
Foshay Tower was the lifelong dream and namesake of Wilbur Foshay, an art student turned businessman who amassed his fortune by building up three utility company empires ... | 20,040 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
Siena marble walls and glass-paneled ceilings.
Foshay invited 25,000 guests to the dedication ceremony and provided all-expenses paid trips to many who included cabinet members, senators and congressmen. Half-nude dancers entertained. Each guest received a gold pocketwatch. The military gave 19-gun salute... | 20,041 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
Foshay's check to Sousa bounced, and in retaliation, Sousa prohibited the playing of the march so long as Foshay's debt to him remained outstanding. Foshay never lived in his new home, which also went into receivership. It wasn't until 1988 when a group of Minnesota investors repaid Foshay's debt to Sousa'... | 20,042 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
patent for this display technique was filed in 1929 by Gottlieb R. Magney, Wilbur Tusler and Arnal and granted in 1931, assigned to the W. B. Foshay Co.
# Later use.
The tower was headquarters for Citizens Utilities, the successor to Foshay's company.
In January 1981, the building was wrapped in a huge ... | 20,043 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
station KFAI has been broadcasting from the tower since 1984, but moved their transmission tower to the IDS Center in March 2007, due to the W Hotel renovation. Around 1980, when the Foshay was still one of the tallest buildings in Minneapolis, the pyramidal top was covered with numerous pieces of radio tr... | 20,044 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
was reported that developers Ralph W. Burnet and Minneapolis-based Ryan Companies would spend as much as $90 million to convert the 32-story office tower into a 230-room W Hotel, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. All tenants with the exception of Keys Café on the first floor moved out.
A unique... | 20,045 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
process of restoring the original ceiling at the behest of the National Register of Historic Places, a process which will take a total of four months alone.
The renovated W Minneapolis – The Foshay opened on August 13, 2008. The hotel retains the 30th floor observation deck and converted Wilbur Foshay's f... | 20,046 |
420428 | Foshay Tower | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foshay%20Tower | Foshay Tower
ist of tallest buildings in Minnesota
- List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis
# References.
- Bill Buzenberg (February 1, 2000). Mr. Foshay's Legend. Minnesota Public Radio.
- Foshay Tower. Minnesota Historical Society.
- NY Times article: "Foshay Companies Fail for $20,000,000" New York Times, Nov... | 20,047 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
Peril at End House
Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at s... | 20,048 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
he aims to protect Nick, a murder happens that provokes Poirot to mount a serious investigation.
The novel was well received when first published, with the plot remarked as unusually ingenious and diabolically clever by reviewers. Writing in 1990, Robert Barnard found it cunning, but not one of Chri... | 20,049 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
her head. Poirot explains his concern to Nick. Poirot suspects someone in Nick's inner circle. Nick's nearest living relative is a lawyer cousin, Charles Vyse, who arranged the re-mortgaging on End House for her to supply desperately needed funds. Her housekeeper is Ellen, and the lodge near End Hous... | 20,050 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
none of which is worth killing for. At Poirot's advice, Nick calls her cousin Maggie to stay with her for a few weeks. When Maggie arrives, Nick hosts a party with everyone present but George. A renowned pilot named Michael Seton has gone missing, sparking debate about his fate. Nick receives a call ... | 20,051 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
to eat anything from an unknown source. The next day, the newspapers report that Michael Seton is dead and Poirot correctly deduces that Nick received that information through the call. Nick confesses to Poirot that she and Michael were secretly engaged. Michael was the sole inheritor of vast wealth,... | 20,052 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
with cocaine, allegedly sent by Poirot. Nick is safe as she ate only one. The chocolates were delivered by Freddie, who claims that Nick phoned her to bring them. Poirot suspects Freddie, who is a cocaine addict.
Poirot sets up a ruse with Nick's participation, telling the others that Nick is dead. ... | 20,053 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
that they had no hand in the murder. Just then, somebody shoots at Freddie and misses. Poirot captures the man, Freddie's sick and dying husband, who wrote many notes begging her for money.
Poirot reveals that the real murderer is Nick. Michael was engaged to Maggie, not Nick: the cousins have the s... | 20,054 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
"souvenir"; the full box contains enough for Nick to take an overdose and escape the gallows. Poirot tells George either to surrender himself or go away, allowing Freddie to recover from her addiction. In the end, Jim and Freddie decide to marry.
# Literary significance and reception.
The "Times Li... | 20,055 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
puzzle, without any ornament or irrelevant interest in character. Poirot and his faithful Captain Hastings are characters whom one is glad to meet again, and they are the most lively in the book, but even they are little more than pawns in this problem. But the plot is arranged with almost mathematic... | 20,056 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
clever enough to fool the little Belgian detective all the time. A good story with a most surprising finish."
Robert Barnard: "A cunning use of simple tricks used over and over in Christie's career (be careful, for example, about names – diminutives and ambiguous male-female Christian names are alwa... | 20,057 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
the August following Poirot's trip to the French Riviera described in that book.
- At the beginning of chapter 14, Hastings describes how Poirot's obsession for tidiness helped him solve a case when he straightened ornaments on a mantelpiece. This is an indirect reference to "The Mysterious Affair a... | 20,058 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
settled in the small village of King's Abbot, only to be prompted to investigate a murder in the village.
# Allusions to actual history, geography and current science.
- Transposed from Devon to Cornwall, the Majestic Hotel of the book is based on the Imperial Hotel in Torquay.
- In chapter seven,... | 20,059 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
Age Books (New York), Hardcover, 177 pp
- 1942, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, (Pocket number 167), 240 pp
- 1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 688), 204 pp
- 1961, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
- 1966, Pan books X521, Paperback
- 1978, Ulverscroft... | 20,060 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
and the reference in Chapter III to the character of Jim Lazarus as, "a Jew, of course, but a frightfully decent one" was deleted. The serialisation carried illustrations by W.D. Stevens. In the UK, the novel was serialised in the weekly "Women's Pictorial" magazine in eleven instalments from 10 Octo... | 20,061 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
he gave me many years ago.
In 1908, Christie was recovering from influenza and bored, and she started to write a story at the suggestion of her mother, Clara Miller (see the dedication to "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"). This suggestion sparked Christie's interest in writing and several pieces we... | 20,062 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
asked Phillpotts to read and critique both the book and other examples of her writing. He was a neighbour and friend of the Miller family in Torquay. He sent an undated reply back which included the praise that, "some of your work is capital. You have a great feeling for dialogue". In view of her lat... | 20,063 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
what they are saying". He gave her further advice in the letter regarding a number of suggestions for further reading to help improve her work.
Phillpotts gave Christie an introduction to his own literary agents, Hughies Massie, who rejected her work (although in the early 1920s, they did start to r... | 20,064 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
of well-justified criticism and possibly discouraged me for life. As it was, he set out to help".
## Dustjacket blurb.
The blurb on the inside flap of the dustjacket of the UK first edition (which is also repeated opposite the title page) reads:Three near escapes from death in three days! Is it acc... | 20,065 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
and relentlessly unravels a murder mystery that must rank as one of the most brilliant that Agatha Christie has yet written.
# Adaptations.
## Stage.
The story was adapted into a play by Arnold Ridley in 1940 and opened in the West End of London at the Vaudeville Theatre on 1 May. Poirot was playe... | 20,066 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
to the novel; however, Freddie's husband does not appear in the film nor does he shoot at Nick during the denouement, Challenger is arrested rather than being allowed to flee, and the fates of Freddie and Jim remain unresolved. This episode was filmed in Salcombe, Devon near Agatha Christie's home to... | 20,067 |
420442 | Peril at End House | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peril%20at%20End%20House | Peril at End House
use", like "Death on the Nile", was adapted into a PC game by Flood Light Games, and published as a joint venture between Oberon Games and Big Fish Games, with the player once again taking the role of Poirot as he searches End House and other areas in Cornwall Coast for clues, and questions suspects ... | 20,068 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
Thomas Grenville
Thomas Grenville (31 December 1755 – 17 December 1846) was a British politician and bibliophile.
# Background and education.
Grenville was the second son of Prime Minister George Grenville and Elizabeth Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet. George Nugent-Temple-Gren... | 20,069 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
a few months during 1806 and 1807 President of the Board of Control (1806) and then First Lord of the Admiralty (1806–1807). In 1798, he was sworn of the Privy Council.
On 1 February 1799 Grenville and a party were travelling on when she was wrecked near Scharhörn off the Elbe. She was trying to deliv... | 20,070 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
seamen, a boy, four Royal Marines, and one woman and her child died; the rest made it to safety in the tower of Neuwerk. The diplomatic party reached Cuxhaven on 6 February to continue to Berlin via Hamburg and return to London on 23 March.
# Library.
He began collecting books from at least his early... | 20,071 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
are also 59 manuscripts. Grenville liked his books to be in excellent condition, and would often have books washed or rebound, as well as seeking out relevant pages to add to any incomplete copies he owned. He lent books widely, Barry Taylor describing his library as apparently "semi-public". He bequea... | 20,072 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
Mr. Thomas Grenville, MP (1790–1798)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, MP (1798–1810)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville (1810–1813)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, MP (1813–1818)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville (1818–1846)
# References.
- "British Historical Facts 1760–1830", by Chris Cook and John... | 20,073 |
420455 | Thomas Grenville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas%20Grenville | Thomas Grenville
Thomas Grenville, MP (1798–1810)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville (1810–1813)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, MP (1813–1818)
- The Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville (1818–1846)
# References.
- "British Historical Facts 1760–1830", by Chris Cook and John Stevenson (The Macmillan Press 1980)
# Further read... | 20,074 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
JCSP
JCSP is an implementation of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) for the Java programming language.
Although CSP is a mathematical system, JCSP does not require in-depth mathematical skill, allowing instead that programmers can achieve well-behaved software just by following simple rules.
# Overview.
... | 20,075 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
in endless wastage of CPU time;
- starvation - one or more threads fail ever to get any work done, compromising the intended outcome of the software algorithms.
Generally, it is not possible to prove the absence of these four hazards merely by rigorous testing. Although rigorous testing is necessary, it is not s... | 20,076 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
JCSP does not force its users to adopt a mathematical approach themselves, but allows them to benefit from the mathematics that underpins the library.
Note that the CSP term "process" is used essentially as a synonym for "thread" in Java parlance; a "process" in CSP is a lightweight unit of execution that interac... | 20,077 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
that each thread can broadly be considered to be a "single-threaded" entity during its design, sparing the developer from the uncertainties of whether and where to use Java's "synchronized" keyword, and at the same time guaranteeing freedom from race conditions. JCSP provides for clear principles for designing the... | 20,078 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
from the standard Java API. Alternation is one of the core concepts that CSP uses to model events in the real world.
Alternative was proven to operate correctly by exhaustive mathematical analysis of its state space, guaranteeing it can never in itself cause a deadlock
. As such, it epitomises the dependability ... | 20,079 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
whether processes are co-located or distributed. The only difference is in the relative performance. So it is possible, for example, to develop an application on a single server then compare multi-processor version of the same application with the aim of optimising the performance.
# Other versions.
## Robot edi... | 20,080 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
of the same concurrent software for robots. Specifically, the robots targeted for this research were the Lego Mindstorms NXTs because they can run the popular LeJOS NXJ virtual machine that executes Java source code.
# Using JCSP from other languages.
JCSP is essentially a pure-Java API (although a research alte... | 20,081 |
420461 | JCSP | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JCSP | JCSP
(although a research alternative exists that uses the C-CSP extension to the JVM). As such, it is in principle eminently suitable for concurrency in Scala and Groovy applications as well as Java ones.
JCSP can therefore provide an alternative to Scala's actor model. JCSP uses synchronised communication and actors... | 20,082 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
3D tic-tac-toe
3D tic-tac-toe, also known by the trade name Qubic, is an abstract strategy board game, generally for two players. It is similar in concept to traditional tic-tac-toe but is played in a cubical array of cells, usually 4x4x4. Players take turns placing their markers in blank cells in the a... | 20,083 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
a hand-drawn board.
The game has been analyzed mathematically and a first-player-win strategy was developed and published. However, the strategy is too complicated for most human players to memorize and apply.
# Pencil and paper.
Like traditional 3x3 tic-tac-toe, the game may be played with pencil and... | 20,084 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
and marketed by Parker Brothers, starting in 1964. It was reissued in 1972 with a more modern design. Both versions described the game as "Parker Brothers 3D Tic Tac Toe Game".
In the original issue, the bottom level board was opaque plastic, and the upper three clear, all of simple square design. The 1... | 20,085 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
game cannot end in a draw and is easily won by the first player unless a rule is adopted that prevents the first player from taking the center cell. In that case, the game is easily won by the second player. By banning the use of the center cell altogether, the game is easily won by the first player. By ... | 20,086 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
76 winning lines. On each of the four 4x4 boards, or horizontal planes, there are four columns, four rows, and two diagonals, accounting for 40 lines. There are 16 vertical lines, each ascending from a cell on the bottom board through the corresponding cells on the other boards. There are eight verticall... | 20,087 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
cells lying on these latter four lines (that is, the eight corner cells and eight internal cells) are each included in seven different winning lines; the other 48 cells (24 face cells and 24 edge cells) are each included in four winning lines.
The corner cells and the internal cells are actually equival... | 20,088 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
as B, A, D, C) for all lines of the cube, and the other exchanges cells of either the inner or the outer cells ( A, C, B, D or equivalently D, B, C, A) for all lines of the cube. Combinations of these basic automorphisms generate the entire group of 192 as shown by R. Silver in 1967.
3D tic-tac-toe was ... | 20,089 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
a computer-assisted proof that consumed 1500 hours of computer time. The strategy comprised move choices for 2929 difficult "strategic" positions, plus assurances that all other positions that could arise could be easily won with a sequence entirely made up of forcing moves. It was further asserted that ... | 20,090 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
Tic-Tac-Toe" by Golomb and Hales.
Another study appears in the book "Combinatorial Games: Tic-Tac-Toe Theory" by József Beck.
# Computer implementations.
Several computer programs that play the game against a human opponent have been written. The earliest of these used console lights and switches, tex... | 20,091 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
of his Master's program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program was written in assembler language for the TX-0 computer. It included lookahead to 12 moves and kept a history of previous games with each opponent, modifying its strategy according to their past behavior.
An implementation... | 20,092 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
"showed up," author unknown, on a G.E. timesharing system in 1968.
Atari released a graphical version of the game for the Atari 2600 console and Atari 8-bit computers in 1978.
The program was written by Carol Shaw, who went on to greater fame as the creator of Activision's "River Raid". It uses the sta... | 20,093 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
made the game available on its "Game Room" service for its Xbox 360 console.
A program library named Qubist, and front-end for the GTK 2 window library are a project on SourceForge.
# Similar and related games.
Besides the related tic tac toe, a popular variant is a commercial product called "Score Fo... | 20,094 |
420457 | 3D tic-tac-toe | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3D%20tic-tac-toe | 3D tic-tac-toe
d for the GTK 2 window library are a project on SourceForge.
# Similar and related games.
Besides the related tic tac toe, a popular variant is a commercial product called "Score Four". In Score Four the markers are small spheres with a hole drilled all the way through. The base of the game board provi... | 20,095 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
Ralph Hall
Ralph Moody Hall (May 3, 1923 – March 7, 2019) was an American politician who served as the United States Representative for from 1981 to 2015. He was first elected in 1980, and was the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology from 2011 to 2013. He was also a member of the... | 20,096 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
to cast a vote, and the last member of Congress from the G.I. Generation. He and Michigan Congressman John Dingell were the last two World War II veterans serving in Congress.
On March 6, 2014, Hall was challenged in the Republican primary by five other Republicans. He received 45.42% of the vote, which was... | 20,097 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
of Dallas. He graduated from Rockwall High School in 1941. He joined the U.S. Navy on December 10, 1942, serving as an aircraft carrier pilot from 1942 to 1945 during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
When he was young, Hall pumped gas for a man and woman whom he later identified as the infamo... | 20,098 |
420454 | Ralph Hall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralph%20Hall | Ralph Hall
was elected county judge of Rockwall County, Texas in November 1950. He held that position until 1962.
In 1962, he was elected to the Texas State Senate after incumbent Ray Roberts won a special election to replace Sam Rayburn in Congress. As a state senator, he would eventually chair a variety of committee... | 20,099 |
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