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269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
acknowledged Rotary club outside North America. It later became known that the Dublin club in Ireland was organized before the London club, but the Dublin club did not receive its charter until after the London club was chartered.
During World War I, Rotary in Britain increased from 9 to 22 clubs,... | 23,900 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
"The Rotarian" was published mere floors below by Atwell Printing and Binding Company. By 1925, Rotary had grown to 200 clubs with more than 20,000 members.
## World War II era in Europe.
Rotary Clubs in Spain ceased to operate shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
Clubs were disb... | 23,901 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
peace. Rotary received consultative status at the UN in 1946–47.
## From 1945 onward.
Rotary clubs in Eastern Europe and other communist-regime nations were disbanded by 1945–46, but new Rotary clubs were organized in many other countries, and by the time of the national independence movements in... | 23,902 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
of 2011, Rotary has contributed more than 900 million US dollars to the cause, resulting in the immunization of nearly two billion children worldwide.
, Rotary has more than 1.2 million members in over 32,000 clubs among 200 countries and geographical areas, making it the most widespread by branch... | 23,903 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
2001–present.
- Richard D. King (2001–02)
- Bhichai Rattakul (2002–03)
- Jonathan B. Majiyagbe (2003–04)
- Glenn E. Estess, Sr. (2004–05)
- Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar (2005–06)
- William Boyd (2006–07)
- Wilfrid J. Wilkinson (2007–08)
- Dong Kurn Lee (2008–09)
- John Kenny (2009–10)
- Ray Kl... | 23,904 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
Nitish Chandra Laharry (1962–63)
- Richard L. Evans (1966–67)
- Luther H. Hodges (1967–68)
- Sir Clem Renouf (1978–79)
- Carlos Canseco (1984–85)
- Royce Abbey (1988–89)
# Organization and administration.
In order to carry out its service programs, Rotary is structured in club, district and ... | 23,905 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
membership. Clubs originally were limited to a single club per city, municipality, or town, but Rotary International has encouraged the formation of one or more additional clubs in the largest cities when practical. Most clubs meet weekly, usually at a mealtime on a weekday in a regular location, w... | 23,906 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
its own president and officers among its active members for a one-year term. The clubs enjoy considerable autonomy within the framework of the standard constitution and the constitution and bylaws of Rotary International. The governing body of the club is the Club Board (sometimes called Club Counc... | 23,907 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
youth service, and international service.
Rotarians may attend any Rotary club around the world at one of their weekly meetings.
## District level.
A district governor, who is an officer of Rotary International and represents the RI board of directors in the field, leads his/her respective Rotar... | 23,908 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
zone. A zone director, who serves as a member of the RI board of directors, heads two zones. The zone director is nominated by the clubs in the zone and elected by the convention for the terms of two consecutive years.
## Rotary International.
Rotary International is governed by a board of direct... | 23,909 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
quarterly to establish policies and make recommendations to the overall governing bodies, the RI Convention and the RI Council on Legislation.
- General Secretary
Rotary International has a general secretary, who also acts as chief operating officer and leads the Rotary Foundation. The current ho... | 23,910 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
an invitation as each prospective Rotarian requires a sponsor who is an existing Rotarian. Some clubs, though not all, have exclusivist membership criteria: reputation and business or professional leadership may be a specific evaluation criterion for issuing invitations to join, and representation ... | 23,911 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
is to promote service to the community they work in, as well as to the wider world. Many projects are organised for the local community by a single club, but some are organised globally.
## Honorary membership.
Honorary membership is given by election of a Rotary Club to people who have distingui... | 23,912 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
It may be extended for an additional period or may also be revoked at any time. Examples of honorary members are heads of state or former heads of state, scientists, members of the military, and other famous figures.
## Female membership.
From 1905 until the 1980s, women were not allowed membersh... | 23,913 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
allowed Marilyn Burke, Carnegie's secretary, accompany him in a lecture inside the Rotary. In 1963, it was noted that the Rotary practice of involving wives in club activities had helped to break down female seclusion in some countries. Clubs such as Rotary had long been predated by women's volunta... | 23,914 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
membership, Rotary International revoked the club's charter in 1978. The Duarte club filed suit in the California courts, claiming that Rotary Clubs are business establishments subject to regulation under California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on race, gender, religion... | 23,915 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
Californian decision supporting women, in the case "Board of Directors, Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte". Rotary International then removed the gender requirements from its requirements for club charters, and most clubs in most countries have opted to include women as members of Rotar... | 23,916 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
began her term as the first female vice-president of Rotary International. Also in 2013, Nan McCreadie was appointed as the first female president of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI). The first woman to join Rotary in Ghana, West Africa was Hilda Danquah (Rotary Club of Cape... | 23,917 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
in the region. She had previously held the offices of Assistant Governor (2006–08), District Administrator (2008–09) and President of The Rotary Club of Highlands (2005–06). She was also Zimbabwe's Country Coordinator (2009–10). Stella, who is a Master PRLS 5 Graduate has been recognised and awarde... | 23,918 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
diversity.
The first Rotary Clubs in Asia were in Manila in the Philippines and Shanghai in China, each in July 1919. Rotary's office in Illinois immediately began encouraging the Rotary Club of Shanghai to recruit Chinese members "believing that when a considerable number of the native business a... | 23,919 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
to the organization's growth. In Rotary's legislative deliberations in June 1921, it was formally determined that racial restrictions would not be permitted. Non-racialism was included in the terms of the standard constitution in 1922 and required to be adopted by all member Clubs.
Rotary and othe... | 23,920 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
is divided into local clubs and districts. Female spouses of Rotary members are traditionally called "Rotary Annes".
## Interact.
Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guid... | 23,921 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of
- Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
- Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
- Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
- Advanci... | 23,922 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
in 9,388 clubs in 176 countries. Rotaract was founded in 1968 by Charlotte North Rotary Club, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Rotaract clubs are either community or university based, and they are sponsored by a local Rotary club. This makes them true "partners in service" and key members of t... | 23,923 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
and children, water and sanitation, education, and economic development.
## RYLA.
RYLA, or Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, is a leadership program for young people aged 14 to 30 across the globe that aims to unite and provide resources for future leaders.
## PolioPlus.
The most notable current ... | 23,924 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
by 2000. Now a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) with WHO, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary is recognized by the United Nations as the key private partner in the eradication effort.
In 2008, Rotary received a $100 million challenge gran... | 23,925 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
second challenge grant, Bill Gates said:
There has been some limited criticism concerning the program for polio eradication. There are some reservations regarding the adaptation capabilities of the virus in some of the oral vaccines, which have been reported to cause infection in populations with ... | 23,926 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
that polio in all its known wild forms would be eliminated by late 2008, provided efforts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India all proceed with their current momentum. As of October 2012, Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan still had wild polio, but it had been eliminated in India.
In 2014,... | 23,927 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
Ambassadorial Scholarships. Today, there are six different types of Rotary Scholarships. More than 38,000 men and women from 100 nations have studied abroad under the auspices of Ambassadorial Scholarship, and today it is the world's largest privately funded international scholarships program. In 2... | 23,928 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
as well as Rotary Grants for University Teachers.
Rotary Fellowships, paid by the foundation launched in honor of Paul Harris in 1947, specialize in providing graduate fellowships around the world, usually in countries other than their own in order to provide international exposure and experience ... | 23,929 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
other close relatives of Rotarians are not eligible.
## Rotary Peace Centers.
Starting in 2002, The Rotary Foundation partnered with eight universities around the world to create the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. The universities included International... | 23,930 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
the Center in France at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the Center in Argentina at the Universidad del Salvador, and the Center in the US at the University of California. In 2006, a new Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) began offering a three-month professional de... | 23,931 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
degree in a range of disciplines related to peace and security. Each Rotary Peace Center offers a unique curriculum and field-based learning opportunities that examine peace and conflict theory through a variety of different frameworks. The first class graduated in 2004. As with many such universit... | 23,932 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
has created a "Rotary Literacy Month" that takes place during the month of March. Rotary clubs also aim to conduct many literacy events during the week of September 8, which is International Literacy Day. Some Rotary clubs raise funds for schools and other literacy organizations. Many clubs take pa... | 23,933 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
People", "Carol is a Rotarian" by Rotarian and children's book author Bruce Larkin and "Rhoda's Rescue" by Maine author Barbara Walsh in conjunction with Rotary Club of Waterville, Maine's Rhoda Reads early literacy program.
# Publications.
Rotary International publishes an official monthly magaz... | 23,934 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
in more than 20 different major languages and distributed in 130 countries.
# Honours.
- Honorary-Member of the Order of Merit, Portugal (2 February 2005)
# See also.
- List of Rotarians
# Further reading.
- In his 2008 thesis, Brendan Goff notes that this book is "the only complete treatment... | 23,935 |
269992 | Rotary International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotary%20International | Rotary International
ary-Member of the Order of Merit, Portugal (2 February 2005)
# See also.
- List of Rotarians
# Further reading.
- In his 2008 thesis, Brendan Goff notes that this book is "the only complete treatment of service clubs in academic literature".
- Goff's 2008 doctoral dissertation, which departs f... | 23,936 |
270004 | John Walters (broadcaster) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Walters%20(broadcaster) | John Walters (broadcaster)
John Walters (broadcaster)
John Walters (11 July 1939 – 30 July 2001) was a British radio producer, presenter and musician. Initially a schoolteacher and a jazz enthusiast, he played trumpet in The Mighty Joe Young Jazz Men and the 1960s pop group The Alan Price Set before joining BBC Radio ... | 23,937 |
270004 | John Walters (broadcaster) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Walters%20(broadcaster) | John Walters (broadcaster)
evening classes in jazz history, played the trumpet with local bands and met Alan Price, then organist with the Animals. When Price quit to form his own group, Walters was recruited. He featured on five of the Alan Price Set's British hits, and played the Albert Hall and the Paris Olympia.
W... | 23,938 |
270004 | John Walters (broadcaster) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Walters%20(broadcaster) | John Walters (broadcaster)
later, but was responsible for getting The Smiths their first session after witnessing an early concert. He was also responsible for The Fall's first session, a group which would later become Peel's favourite. Walters and Peel became close friends, with Walters being Peel's best man when he m... | 23,939 |
270004 | John Walters (broadcaster) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Walters%20(broadcaster) | John Walters (broadcaster)
.
Walters also produced Vivian Stanshall's first foray into radio, both by overseeing Stanshall's "Rawlinson End Radio Flashes" when Stanshall stood in for a vacationing John Peel, and Stanshall's "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". He presented the long-running Radio 1 arts magazine "Walters' Wee... | 23,940 |
270041 | Prony equation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prony%20equation | Prony equation
Prony equation
The Prony equation (named after Gaspard de Prony) is a historically important equation in hydraulics, used to calculate the head loss due to friction within a given run of pipe. It is an empirical equation developed by Frenchman Gaspard de Prony in the 19th century:
where "h" is the head... | 23,941 |
270041 | Prony equation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prony%20equation | Prony equation
ny equation (named after Gaspard de Prony) is a historically important equation in hydraulics, used to calculate the head loss due to friction within a given run of pipe. It is an empirical equation developed by Frenchman Gaspard de Prony in the 19th century:
where "h" is the head loss due to friction, ... | 23,942 |
270040 | Francesco Maria Guazzo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Maria%20Guazzo | Francesco Maria Guazzo
Francesco Maria Guazzo
Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, aka Guaccius (1570–16??) was an Italian priest. Is most well known for the writing the "Compendium Maleficarum" (Book of Witches).
He was a member of one of the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosian orders. These religious brotherhoods had ... | 23,943 |
270040 | Francesco Maria Guazzo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Maria%20Guazzo | Francesco Maria Guazzo
link between them. However, in 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called ‘Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus’ of which Francesco Maria Guazzo was a member under the papacy of Pope Sixtus V and Pope Paul V.
Guazzo had firsthand experience of the practice and profession of wit... | 23,944 |
270040 | Francesco Maria Guazzo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Maria%20Guazzo | Francesco Maria Guazzo
in order to exorcise the mad John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1562–1609). Guazzo first diagnosed possession, but after five months of unsuccessful attempts at spiritual healing and in the summer of 1604, the diagnosis was changed to bewitchment as the cause of the poor Duke’s mental illn... | 23,945 |
270040 | Francesco Maria Guazzo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Maria%20Guazzo | Francesco Maria Guazzo
his contemporaries as the authoritative manuscript on Witchcraft. Within his text, Guazzo discusses witches’ pacts with the devil, detailed descriptions of witches’ powers and poisons and also prepared his classification of the demons based on a previous work by Michael Psellus.
In this work, Gu... | 23,946 |
270040 | Francesco Maria Guazzo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco%20Maria%20Guazzo | Francesco Maria Guazzo
lished 2004 by Book Tree), limited preview online
# Bibliography.
- Guazzo, Francesco Maria; "Compendium Maleficarum"; 1608
- Behringer, Wolfgang; "Witches & Witchhunts. A Global History" (Themes in History)); Polity; 2004
- Lindemann, Mary;" Medicine & Society in Early Modern Europe"; Cambri... | 23,947 |
270053 | Timeline of aviation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline%20of%20aviation | Timeline of aviation
Timeline of aviation
This is a timeline of aviation history, and a list of more detailed aviation timelines. The text in the diagram are clickable links to articles.
# Timeline.
- Timeline of aviation before the 18th century
- Timeline of aviation – 18th century
- Timeline of aviation – 19th c... | 23,948 |
270053 | Timeline of aviation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline%20of%20aviation | Timeline of aviation
– 1943 – 1944 – 1945 – 1946 – 1947 – 1948 – 1949
- 1950s: 1950 – 1951 – 1952 – 1953 – 1954 – 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959
- 1960s: 1960 – 1961 – 1962 – 1963 – 1964 – 1965 – 1966 – 1967 – 1968 – 1969
- 1970s: 1970 – 1971 – 1972 – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979
- 1980s: 1980 –... | 23,949 |
270053 | Timeline of aviation | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline%20of%20aviation | Timeline of aviation
– 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959
- 1960s: 1960 – 1961 – 1962 – 1963 – 1964 – 1965 – 1966 – 1967 – 1968 – 1969
- 1970s: 1970 – 1971 – 1972 – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979
- 1980s: 1980 – 1981 – 1982 – 1983 – 1984 – 1985 – 1986 – 1987 – 1988 – 1989
- 1990s: 1990 – 1991 – 1992 –... | 23,950 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport (German: "Flughafen Stuttgart", formerly "Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen") is the international airport of Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's former mayor, Manfred Rommel, and is the sixth bus... | 23,951 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
Filderstadt and Stuttgart itself. In 2007, the Stuttgart Trade Fair – the ninth biggest exhibition centre in Germany – moved to grounds directly next to the airport. Additionally, the global headquarters for car parking company APCOA Parking are located here.
# History.
## First years and World War ... | 23,952 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
of the airfield. Some of the units operating at Echterdingen were headquartered at nearby Nellingen Kaserne- now closed and redeveloped. In 1984-5, the 223rd Aviation Battalion (Combat) of the 11th Aviation Group (Combat) was headquartered at Echterdingen, with three aviation companies assigned (one a... | 23,953 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
was expanded after World War II. The runway was extended to in 1948, then to in 1961 and finally to in 1996.
The original 1938 terminal was finally replaced in 2004 and there are now four terminals with a maximum capacity of approximately 12 million passengers.
Politicians, town planners and nearby ... | 23,954 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
This proposal caused public disputes as he was the son of Erwin Rommel but also highly respected for his work on intercultural affairs. In July 2014 it has been announced that the airport will be named "Flughafen Stuttgart - Manfred Rommel Flughafen" from now on. In September 2016, the airport unveile... | 23,955 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
as their seventh German destination by March 2015. In December 2014, Ryanair also announced added Stuttgart six weekly flights to Manchester from April 2015.
Air Berlin announced the start of a service to Abu Dhabi from December 2014. On 31 May 2016, Air Berlin ceased its flights to Abu Dhabi. In Oct... | 23,956 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
stands.
- Terminal 1 is the first of two landside main halls and features together with its addition Terminal 1-West 50 check-in counters. It shares the roof with Terminals 2 and 3 and is mainly used by Eurowings and Lufthansa.
- Terminal 2 is a small area featuring nine check-in counters and a secu... | 23,957 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
terminals, a separate and very basic equipped building to the east of Terminals 1 to 3 but also connected to them by a walk way. It features 17 more check-in counters as well as several bus-boarding gates and is used mostly for holiday charter operations. In March 2018, the airport administration anno... | 23,958 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
Augsburg and Munich. The Bundesstraße 27 (B27) leads to downtown Stuttgart, as well as to Tübingen and Reutlingen in the South.
## Coach.
From the regional cities of Esslingen am Neckar, Reutlingen, Tübingen and Kirchheim exists a connection by coach. Additionally, German long-distance coach operato... | 23,959 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
airport with the future Stuttgart - Ulm high-speed railway line currently under construction as part of the major Stuttgart 21 railway redevelopment program. Therefore, a new long-distance train station will be built on the airport's grounds near the existing suburban railway station. The new station,... | 23,960 |
270015 | Stuttgart Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart%20Airport | Stuttgart Airport
ent program. Therefore, a new long-distance train station will be built on the airport's grounds near the existing suburban railway station. The new station, which will be served by "ICE" high-speed trains will be connected to the new line by an underground loop track. The Stuttgart-Ulm line is schedu... | 23,961 |
270045 | Empirical relationship | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empirical%20relationship | Empirical relationship
Empirical relationship
In science, an empirical relationship or phenomenological relationship is a relationship or correlation that is supported by experiment and observation but not necessarily supported by theory.
# Analytical solutions without a theory.
An empirical relationship is supporte... | 23,962 |
270045 | Empirical relationship | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empirical%20relationship | Empirical relationship
series, but lacked a theoretical basis until Niels Bohr produced his Bohr model of the atom in 1925.
On occasion, what was thought to be an empirical factor is later deemed to be a fundamental physical constant.
# Approximations.
Some empirical relationships are merely approximations, often eq... | 23,963 |
270045 | Empirical relationship | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empirical%20relationship | Empirical relationship
1925.
On occasion, what was thought to be an empirical factor is later deemed to be a fundamental physical constant.
# Approximations.
Some empirical relationships are merely approximations, often equivalent to the first few terms of the Taylor series of the analytical solution describing the ... | 23,964 |
270049 | Jacques Collin de Plancy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques%20Collin%20de%20Plancy | Jacques Collin de Plancy
Jacques Collin de Plancy
Jacques Albin Simon Collin de Plancy (28 January 1793 in Plancy-l'Abbaye – 1881 in Paris) was a French occultist, demonologist and writer; he published several works on occultism and demonology.
# Biography.
He was born Jacques Albin Simon Collin on 28 (in some sourc... | 23,965 |
270049 | Jacques Collin de Plancy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques%20Collin%20de%20Plancy | Jacques Collin de Plancy
publisher in Plancy-l'Abbaye and Paris. Between 1830 and 1837, he resided in Brussels, and then in the Netherlands, before he returned to France after having converted to the Catholic religion.
Collin de Plancy followed the tradition of many previous demonologists of cataloguing demons by name... | 23,966 |
270049 | Jacques Collin de Plancy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques%20Collin%20de%20Plancy | Jacques Collin de Plancy
books, deeds and causes which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell; divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, errors, prejudices, traditions, folktales, the various superstitions, and generally all manner of marvellous, surprising, mysterious, and supernatura... | 23,967 |
270049 | Jacques Collin de Plancy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques%20Collin%20de%20Plancy | Jacques Collin de Plancy
starting in 1884, served as French Minister to Korea and whose collected art works and books became part of the core of the Korean collections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.
# External links.
- Dictionnaire infernal: ou Répertoire universel des êtres, des ... | 23,968 |
270049 | Jacques Collin de Plancy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacques%20Collin%20de%20Plancy | Jacques Collin de Plancy
ections of the French Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Guimet in Paris.
# External links.
- Dictionnaire infernal: ou Répertoire universel des êtres, des personnages, 1853 at Google Books, PDF download available
- Réalité de la magie et des apparitions: ou, Contre-poison du Dictionnaire,... | 23,969 |
270058 | Henry Darcy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Darcy | Henry Darcy
Henry Darcy
Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (, 10 June 1803 – 3 January 1858) was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics including Darcy’s law for flow in porous media.
# Early life.
Darcy was born in Dijon, France. Despite his father's death in 1817 when he was 14, his mo... | 23,970 |
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a member of the Corps, he built an impressive pressurized water distribution system in Dijon following the failure of attempts to supply adequate fresh water by drilling wells. The system carried water from Rosoir Spring away through a covered aqueduct (watercourse) to reservoirs near the city, which then f... | 23,971 |
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head loss due to friction, which after further modification by Julius Weisbach would become the well-known Darcy–Weisbach equation still in use today.
In 1848 he became Chief Engineer for the "département" of which Dijon is the capital. Soon thereafter he left Dijon due to political pressure, but was promo... | 23,972 |
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itted to continue his research in Dijon. In 1855 and 1856 he conducted column experiments that established what has become known as Darcy's law; initially developed to describe flow through sands, it has since been generalized to a variety of situations and is in widespread use today. The unit of measure of... | 23,973 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
Shedim
Shedim () are spirits or demons in early Jewish mythology. However, they are not necessarily equivalent to the modern connotation of demons as evil entities. Evil spirits were thought as the cause of maladies; conceptual differing from the shedim, who are not evil demigods, but the foreign gods themselve... | 23,974 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
which the word shedu referred to a protective, benevolent spirit. The word may also derive from the "Sedim, Assyrian guard spirits" as referenced according to lore "Azazel slept with Naamah and spawned Assyrian guard spirits known as sedim". With the translation of Hebew texts into Greek, under influence of Zora... | 23,975 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
as related in Genesis. To others they are descendants of Adam and Lilith. Another legend said that God had started making them, intending for them to be humans, but did not complete their creation because He was resting during the Sabbath. Even after the Sabbath, He left them how they were to show that when the ... | 23,976 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
the shedim, but it is unclear if the sacrifice consisted in the murdering of the victims or in the sexual satisfaction of the demons. To see if the shedim were present in some place, ashes were thrown to the ground or floor, and then their footsteps became visible.
The "shedim" are supposed to follow the dead o... | 23,977 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
to be helpful to humans. They are said to be even able to live according to the Torah, like Asmodeus.
# See also.
- Se'irim
# Further reading.
- Ben-Amos, Dan. "On Demons." In "Creation and Re-creation in Jewish Thought: Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Dan on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday". Mohr Sie... | 23,978 |
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"Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism". University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 11–13 online.
- Goldish, Matt. "Spirit Possession in Judaism". Wayne State University Press, 2003, p. 356 online.
- Heiser, Michael S. 2015. "The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of th... | 23,979 |
270044 | Shedim | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shedim | Shedim
ty of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. 11–13 online.
- Goldish, Matt. "Spirit Possession in Judaism". Wayne State University Press, 2003, p. 356 online.
- Heiser, Michael S. 2015. "The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible".
- Koén-Sarano, Matilda. "King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Ta... | 23,980 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
Corpus callosum
The corpus callosum (Latin for "tough body"), also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain. The corpus callosum is only found in placental mammals. It spans part of the longitudinal fis... | 23,981 |
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genu, the rostrum, the trunk or body, and the splenium.
# Structure.
The corpus callosum forms the floor of the longitudinal fissure that separates the two cerebral hemispheres. It also forms part of the roof of the lateral ventricles.
The corpus callosum has four main parts; individual nerve tracts ... | 23,982 |
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The lower much thinner part is the rostrum and is connected below with the lamina terminalis, which stretches from the interventricular foramina to the recess at the base of the optic stalk. The rostrum is named for its resemblance to a bird's beak.
The end part of the corpus callosum, towards the cere... | 23,983 |
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of the corpus callosum, the fibers radiate in the white matter and pass to the various parts of the cerebral cortex; those curving forward from the genu into the frontal lobes constitute the "forceps minor" (also "forceps anterior") and those curving backward from the splenium into the occipital lobes, ... | 23,984 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
the under surface of the rostrum, they arch over the front of the genu and are carried along the trunk, supplying the front four-fifths of the corpus callosum.
## Nerve fibres.
The size, amount of myelination, and density of the fibers in the subregions relate to the functions of the brain regions the... | 23,985 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
the visual and motor areas.
The tractogram pictured, shows the nerve tracts from six segments of the corpus callosum, providing linking of the cortical regions between the cerebral hemispheres. Those of the genu are shown in coral, of the premotor – green, of the sensory-motor – purple, of the parietal... | 23,986 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
to supplementary motor regions including Broca's area. The splenium, communicates somatosensory information between the two halves of the parietal lobe and the visual cortex at the occipital lobe, these are the fibres of the forceps major.
In a study of five- to eighteen-year-olds there was found to be... | 23,987 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
advanced imaging techniques that appeared to refute earlier correlations. However, advanced analytical techniques of computational neuroanatomy developed in the 1990s showed that sex differences were clear but confined to certain parts of the corpus callosum, and that they correlated with cognitive perf... | 23,988 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
an indirect measurement of anatomical connection strength. These sequences have found consistent sex differences in human corpus callosal shape and microstructure.
Analysis by shape and size has also been used to study specific three-dimensional mathematical relationships with MRIs, and have found cons... | 23,989 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
than right-handed people. This difference is evident in the anterior and posterior regions of the corpus callosum, but not in the splenium. Other magnetic resonance morphometric study showed corpus callosum size correlates positively with verbal memory capacity and semantic coding test performance.
Chi... | 23,990 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
process strengthens synaptic connections that are habitually used and eliminates the ones that are not. The implications are an increased coordination of hands, differences in white matter structure, and amplification of plasticity in motor and auditory scaffolding which would serve to aid in future mus... | 23,991 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
through the corpus callosum in an operation known as a corpus callosotomy. This is usually reserved for cases in which complex or grand mal seizures are produced by an epileptogenic focus on one side of the brain, causing an interhemispheric electrical storm. The diagnostic work up for this procedure in... | 23,992 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
of the corpus callosum (ACC) is a rare congenital disorder that is one of the most common brain malformations observed in human beings, in which the corpus callosum is partially or completely absent. ACC is usually diagnosed within the first two years of life, and may manifest as a severe syndrome in in... | 23,993 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
Hydrocephaly may also occur. In mild cases, symptoms such as seizures, repetitive speech, or headaches may not appear for years. Some syndromes that are often associated with ACC are Aicardi syndrome, Andermann syndrome, Shapiro syndrome, and acrocallosal syndrome.
ACC is usually not fatal. Treatment u... | 23,994 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
seizure disorders should be screened for metabolic disorders.
In addition to agenesis of the corpus callosum, similar conditions are hypogenesis (partial formation), dysgenesis (malformation), and hypoplasia (underdevelopment, including too thin).
Recent studies have also linked possible correlations ... | 23,995 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
of corpus callosum)
- Split-brain
- Septo-optic dysplasia (deMorsier syndrome)
- Multiple sclerosis with the Dawson's fingers sign
- Encephalopathy a mild form with a reversible splenial lesion–a rare encephalopathy of unknown origin with a transient lesion in the splenium, mostly associated with in... | 23,996 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
may mean exceptional intellectual activity" and that there were measurable differences between men and women. Perhaps reflecting the political climate of the times, he went on to claim differences in the size of the callosum across different races. His research was ultimately refuted by Franklin Mall, t... | 23,997 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
between the hemispheres—possibly the basis for women’s intuition."
More recent publications in the psychology literature have raised doubt as to whether the anatomic size of the corpus is actually different. A meta-analysis of 49 studies since 1980 found that, contrary to de Lacoste-Utamsing and Hollow... | 23,998 |
270014 | Corpus callosum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corpus%20callosum | Corpus callosum
as well as other vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. (Other groups do have other brain structures that allow for communication between the two hemispheres, such as the anterior commissure, which serves as the primary mode of interhemispheric communication in marsupials, and which c... | 23,999 |
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