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3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
who had been killed in a flying boat accident near Messina, Italy.
- On 1 July 1935, G-ADED of Railway Air Services crashed on take-off from Ronaldsway Airport, Isle of Man injuring all seven people on board. The aircraft, which was operating a scheduled passenger flight from Ronaldsway to Ringway ... | 31,200 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
coast, near Rumney, Cardiff killing all 3 on board.
- On 26 March 1936, G-ACAP of Commercial Air Hire crashed near Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England killing all five on board. The aircraft had flown from Croydon Airport and was carrying out military co-operation work around Southampton. Commercial Air ... | 31,201 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
the pilot and four passengers.
- 21 September 1951 – Pilot First Officer Frederick George Barlogie of Bondi, NSW, was killed when his Qantas DH-84 Dragon crashed into mountainous country southeast of Arona in the central highlands of New Guinea.
- On 13 December 1951 – The pilot and two passengers... | 31,202 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
Queensland Police found the wreckage near Borumba Dam. All six occupants were killed and the aircraft destroyed after impacting a ridge. The pilot and owner had flown into unexpected thick cloud and issued a sécurité call. The aircraft's only primary instruments were an airspeed indicator and altime... | 31,203 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
operators.
- Royal Australian Air Force♠
- Austrian Air Force (1927–1938)
- Brazilian Naval Aviation
- Royal Danish Air Force♠ – Two DH.84 Dragons
- Ethiopian Air Force
- Royal Iraqi Air Force♠ – Eight DH.84M Dragons
- Irish Air Corps
- Royal New Zealand Air Force
- No. 42 Squadron RNZAF
-... | 31,204 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
Butler Air Transport
- MacRobertson Miller Airlines
- Qantas
- Western Australian Airways ♠
- VASP♠
- Canadian Airways
- Misrair
- Lignes Aériennes Nord-Africaines (L.A.N.A.)
- Indian National Airways ♠
- Aer Lingus
- Wilson Airways ♠
- Air Travel (NZ) Ltd
- East Coast Airways ♠
- Union... | 31,205 |
3448671 | De Havilland Dragon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De%20Havilland%20Dragon | De Havilland Dragon
rways ♠
- Union Airways of N.Z. Ltd
- African Air Transport ♠
- Aberdeen Airways ♠
- Air Cruises ♠
- Air Navigation & Trading
- Air Dispatch
- Allied Airways
- Blackpool and West Coast Air Services ♠
- British Airways
- British Continental Airways
- Commercial Air Hire ♠
- Great Western ... | 31,206 |
3448744 | Isogenous series | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isogenous%20series | Isogenous series
Isogenous series
Isogenous is a term occasionally used in spectroscopy that denotes when two or more spectroscopic series of transition from a common state. The word was first used in this context in T.J. Stone & R.F. Barrow "Laser excited fluorescence spectra of gaseous formula_1", Canadian Journal o... | 31,207 |
3448743 | Winter Weezerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winter%20Weezerland | Winter Weezerland
Winter Weezerland
Weezer's Winter Weezerland EP is an EP released in December 2005 exclusively for iTunes users. It features songs that had originally been recorded by the band in 2000 as part of a special Christmas CD that was sent out to Weezer fan club members. The cover of the CD featured the ban... | 31,208 |
3448743 | Winter Weezerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winter%20Weezerland | Winter Weezerland
Christmas versions of classic Weezer tracks including one group that believed previously unheard tracks would be released in the tradition of Weezer's popular "Holiday Treats."
# Reaction.
Many fans complained that the release of the EP was completely unnecessary since mp3s of the songs were already... | 31,209 |
3448743 | Winter Weezerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winter%20Weezerland | Winter Weezerland
ral iTunes reviews of the EP included references to the free mp3s available on the band's website.
E-mail replies from the band's unofficial fifth member, Karl Koch, have suggested that the band was not involved in the release of the EP and it was a decision made independently by the band's record la... | 31,210 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
Sequentia (music group)
Sequentia is an early music ensemble, founded in 1977 by Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton (died 8 November 1998). The group specializes mainly in Medieval music. Sequentia focuses particularly on music with texts, specifically chants and other stories with music, such... | 31,211 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
work from Cologne for more than twenty years; in 2002, it relocated to Paris.
In 1977, while still at Basel, Thornton and Bagby, together with the group Studio der frühen Musik and some associated singers, staged two 12th century miracle plays relating to St Nicholas; the plays were taken on to... | 31,212 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
to partly improvised instrumentation already has much in common with their later recordings.
The only long-term members of Sequentia have been Benjamin Bagby, Barbara Thornton, Norbert Rodenkirchen, and Katarina Livljanic after Thornton's death. Margriet Tindemans was a member for the first nin... | 31,213 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
"Minstrels and Clerics" and "Jongleurs et Clerics")
- "Trouvères. Courtly love songs from Northern France" (1984)
- "Wandering Satirists of Medieval Germany" (1983)
- "Philippe le Chancelier: School of Notre Dame" (1990)
- "English Songs of the Middle Ages" (1988)
- "Philippe de Vitry: Mote... | 31,214 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
(1993)
- "Visions from the Book" (1996)
- "Shining Light. Christmas Music from Aquitanien Monasteries" (1996)
- "Aquitania. Christmas Musik from Aquitanien Monasteries" (1994/96)
- "Hildegard von Bingen: Complete Edition"
- "Symphoniae. Spiritual Songs" (1985)
- "Canticles of Ecstasy" (199... | 31,215 |
3448699 | Sequentia (music group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequentia%20(music%20group) | Sequentia (music group)
"Symphoniae. Spiritual Songs" (1985)
- "Canticles of Ecstasy" (1994)
- "Voice of the Blood" (1995)
- "O Jerusalem" (1997)
- "Ordo Virtutum" (1982, re-recorded 1998)
- "Saints" (1997)
- "" (2013)
- "Edda. Myths from Medieval Iceland" (1996)
- "The Rheingold Curse" (2001)
- "Lost Songs of... | 31,216 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
Starpeace
Starpeace is Yoko Ono's 1985 concept album, designed to spread a message of peace around the world as an opposition to Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense system. As with most Ono albums, it did not chart extensively but the single release of "Hell in Paradise" reached #16 on the US dance c... | 31,217 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
Words, music, concept, and vocals by Ono.
The 1984 video documentary release "Yoko Ono: Now & Then" includes footage of the recording sessions for "Starpeace". Over the end credits, Ono performs an unreleased song apparently entitled "Rainbow Time".
A 12" promo single was released for the song "Cape Clear",... | 31,218 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
make embarrassing claims on our emotions". Allmusic writer Richie Unterberger retrospectively gave it two stars, stating that the tracks were "often imbued with a kind of sappy utopianism". Peter Buckley, in "The Rough Guide to Rock", has described the album as "a rather bombastic error of judgement, laden do... | 31,219 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
album positively, with Anthony Decurtis writing that ""Starpeace" seamlessly fuses artistic daring and accessibility... there can be no denying that this fifty-two-year-old pop star now fully deserves to be reckoned with on her own demanding terms".
The poor response to the album and low ticket sales on the ... | 31,220 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
version, 12" with remixes) (Reached #16 on US dance chart)
- "Cape Clear" (Promo 12" with re-edit of "Walking On Thin Ice")
# Personnel.
- Yoko Ono - vocals, cover concept
- Bernie Worrell, Jeff Bova - keyboards
- Eddie Martinez - guitar, guitar synthesizer, electric sitar
- L. Shankar - violin
- Robbi... | 31,221 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
Foxx - bass guitar on "Imagine"
- Mark Rivera, Phil Ashley - keyboards on "Imagine"
- Benny Gramm - drums on "Imagine"
- Steve Scales - percussion on "Imagine"
- Technical
- Produced by Bill Laswell and Yoko Ono
- Recorded and mixed by Rob Stevens
- Francesco Scavullo - cover photography
# Tour.
In 1... | 31,222 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
a photo of Ono rehearsing to an empty hall before the show was printed as if nobody had come to the actual concert. A German DJ was also encouraging people to turn up and throw glass bottles at her.
However, the fans loved the shows, critics widely praised her for her performances, and she filled a venue of ... | 31,223 |
3448705 | Starpeace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Starpeace | Starpeace
That said, planned US tour dates were postponed and eventually cancelled due to disappointing ticket sales. Rykodisc's 1997 CD reissues of Ono's albums made available live versions of "Imagine" and "Now or Never" from the tour. The Starpeace setlist usually consisted of:
- "Midsummer New York"
- "Give Me So... | 31,224 |
3448756 | Diklosmta | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diklosmta | Diklosmta
Diklosmta
Diklosmta or simply Diklo () is a peak in the eastern part of the Caucasus Mountains in between border of the Russian Republics of Chechnya and Dagestan and the Tusheti region of Georgia.
# Geography.
The mountain is located on the Pirikita Range which lies to the north of the Greater Caucasus Mo... | 31,225 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler, or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, ... | 31,226 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
He was listed as Carl Tanzler von Cosel on his United States citizenship papers, and he was listed as Carl Tanzler on his Florida death certificate. Some of his hospital records were signed Count Carl Tanzler von Cosel.
# Early life.
He was born as Karl Tänzler or Georg Karl Tänzler on February 8, 1877 i... | 31,227 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
of March and April 1939, gives details about his stay in Australia before and during World War I and his return to Germany after the war:
Tanzler's account of Trial Bay Gaol, his secret building of a sailing boat, etc., is confirmed by Nyanatiloka Mahathera, who mentions that he planned to escape from the... | 31,228 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Leaving his family behind in Zephyrhills in 1927, he took a job as a radiology technician at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida under the name Carl von Cosel.
During his childhood in Germany, and later while traveling briefly in Genoa, Italy, Tanzler claimed to have been visited by visions of a... | 31,229 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Tanzler immediately recognized her as the beautiful dark-haired woman that had been revealed to him in his earlier "visions." By all accounts, Hoyos was viewed as a local beauty in Key West.
Elena was the daughter of local cigar maker Francisco "Pancho" Hoyos (1883–1934) and Aurora Milagro (1881–1940). Sh... | 31,230 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Luis left Hoyos shortly after Hoyos miscarried the couple's child, and moved to Miami. Hoyos was legally married to Mesa at the time of her death.
Hoyos was eventually diagnosed with tuberculosis, a typically fatal disease at the time, that eventually claimed the lives of almost all of her immediate famil... | 31,231 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Tanzler's best efforts, Hoyos died of tuberculosis at her parents' home in Key West on October 25, 1931. Tanzler paid for her funeral, and with the permission of her family he then commissioned the construction of an above ground mausoleum in the Key West Cemetery, which he visited almost every night.
One... | 31,232 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
him to take her from the grave. Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler ... | 31,233 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition.
In October 1940, Hoyos' sister Florinda heard rumors of Tanzler sleeping with the disinterred body of her sister, and confronted Tanzler at his home, where Hoyos' body was eventually discovered (he was also caught dancing with her corp... | 31,234 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
was held to answer on the charge, but the case was eventually dropped and he was released, as the statute of limitations for the crime had expired.
Shortly after the corpse's discovery by authorities, Hoyos' body was examined by physicians and pathologists, and put on public display at the Dean-Lopez Fune... | 31,235 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
created a sensation among the public, both regionally and nationwide. The public mood was generally sympathetic to Tanzler, whom many viewed as an eccentric "romantic".
Though not reported contemporaneously, research (most notably by authors Harrison and Swicegood) has revealed evidence of Tanzler's necro... | 31,236 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
30 years after the case had been dismissed, the necrophilia allegation is questionable. While no existing contemporary photographs of the autopsy or photographs taken at the public display show a tube, the necrophilia claim was repeated by the HBO "Autopsy" program in 1999.
# Later life and death.
In 194... | 31,237 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
create a life-sized effigy of Hoyos, and lived with it until his death on July 3, 1952. His body was discovered on the floor of his home three weeks after his death. He died under the name "Carl Tanzler".
It has been recounted that Tanzler was found in the arms of the Hoyos effigy upon discovery of his co... | 31,238 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Hoyos.
# In popular culture.
## Exhibits.
- The "Ripley's Believe It or Not" museum In Key West, Florida, has an exhibit recreating Elena's body being cared for by Tanzler.
- Portions of the original memorial plaque that was commissioned by Tanzler and affixed to Elena Hoyos's mausoleum have been reass... | 31,239 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
Station's "Von Cosel" album.
- In 2007, the band "The Black Dahlia Murder" released a song titled “Deathmask Divine,” on their "Nocturnal" album which tells the story.
- In 2008, the Swedish band ChansoNoir released the EP "Count Von Cosels Obsession", with the b-side "A Cemetery Serenade" presenting an ... | 31,240 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
inspired by Tanzler on her album" PG-13."
## Television.
- In 2010, an episode of the science-fiction TV drama series "Fringe" entitled "Marionette" aired, which appeared to be loosely based on the Tanzler story.
- In 2015, the story of Tanzler and Elena Hoyos was featured in an Investigation Discovery ... | 31,241 |
3448661 | Carl Tanzler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carl%20Tanzler | Carl Tanzler
## Television.
- In 2010, an episode of the science-fiction TV drama series "Fringe" entitled "Marionette" aired, which appeared to be loosely based on the Tanzler story.
- In 2015, the story of Tanzler and Elena Hoyos was featured in an Investigation Discovery series "True Nightmares" episode entitled "... | 31,242 |
3448715 | La Carrera Panamericana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Carrera%20Panamericana | La Carrera Panamericana
La Carrera Panamericana
La Carrera Panamericana is a 1992 video of the Carrera Panamericana automobile race in Mexico. The film was directed by Ian McArthur, and included a soundtrack entirely of music by the band Pink Floyd, as the band's guitarist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and manager... | 31,243 |
3448715 | La Carrera Panamericana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Carrera%20Panamericana | La Carrera Panamericana
material composed for the video. The tracks composed for the video are the first studio recordings made after Richard Wright re-joined the band in 1990. The new studio recordings were produced by Gilmour and engineered by Andy Jackson. The songs "Pan Am Shuffle" and "Carrera Slow Blues" are nota... | 31,244 |
3448715 | La Carrera Panamericana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Carrera%20Panamericana | La Carrera Panamericana
oundtrack album was not released, but the tracks are available on the "A Tree Full of Secrets" bootleg recording.
# Track listing.
All tracks written by David Gilmour, except where noted.
## Previously recorded.
- "Signs of Life" (Gilmour/Ezrin) – 4:24
- "Yet Another Movie" (Gilmour/Leonard... | 31,245 |
3448786 | CBS Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CBS%20Studios | CBS Studios
CBS Studios
CBS Studios may refer to the following (all being properties of CBS Corporation):
- The CBS television network
- CBS Broadcast Center, the studio center and home of CBS News in New York City
- CBS Studio Center, a television and motion picture production facility in Los Angeles
- CBS Studio... | 31,246 |
3448785 | Tebulosmta | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tebulosmta | Tebulosmta
Tebulosmta
Tebulosmta (, "Tuloy-Lam" or Tiebuolt-Lam, , "Tebulos mta", ) is the highest mountain of the Eastern Caucasus and the highest mountain of the Chechen Republic at an elevation of 4,493 meters (14,737 feet) above sea level. The mountain is located on the border of Georgia and Chechnya to the east o... | 31,247 |
3448771 | Kook's Tour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kook's%20Tour | Kook's Tour
Kook's Tour
Kook's Tour is an American comedy film produced in late 1969 and early 1970. It was the final film to star the Three Stooges and was originally intended as the pilot for a television series. However, on January 9, 1970, before filming was completed, Larry Fine suffered a severe stroke, paralyzi... | 31,248 |
3448771 | Kook's Tour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kook's%20Tour | Kook's Tour
comedy with a documentary travelogue format. The concept of the series was that, after 50 years of comic mayhem, the Stooges (Moe, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita) have retired and are traveling the world with their dog, Moose, motor home, and motor boat (which is transported from place to place via a cargo plane... | 31,249 |
3448771 | Kook's Tour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kook's%20Tour | Kook's Tour
Larry starts to get excited about catching some fish, but Curly Joe counts the fish and says "One for me, one for Moe, and one for...Moose!"
The epilogue shows Moe sitting in an office, discussing the trip and stating that their next destination for the second episode (which was ultimately never produced) ... | 31,250 |
3448771 | Kook's Tour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kook's%20Tour | Kook's Tour
Tour", which was popularized by the Thomas Cook travel company. The film also served as a promotional vehicle for the Chrysler Corporation. All the vehicles shown in this movie were produced by Chrysler, Chrysler RV, and Chrysler Marine Division.
Following Larry's stroke and the cancellation of "Kook's Tou... | 31,251 |
3448771 | Kook's Tour | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kook's%20Tour | Kook's Tour
popularized by the Thomas Cook travel company. The film also served as a promotional vehicle for the Chrysler Corporation. All the vehicles shown in this movie were produced by Chrysler, Chrysler RV, and Chrysler Marine Division.
Following Larry's stroke and the cancellation of "Kook's Tour", the film rema... | 31,252 |
3448796 | R.E.M. discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.E.M.%20discography | R.E.M. discography
R.E.M. discography
Between 1983 and 2011, American alternative rock band R.E.M. released 15 studio albums, four live albums, 14 compilation albums, one remix album, one soundtrack album, 12 video albums, seven extended plays, 63 singles, and 77 music videos. Formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, g... | 31,253 |
3448796 | R.E.M. discography | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.E.M.%20discography | R.E.M. discography
bums, 14 compilation albums, one remix album, one soundtrack album, 12 video albums, seven extended plays, 63 singles, and 77 music videos. Formed in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry, the band was pivotal in the development of the alternat... | 31,254 |
3448799 | Pikysyry maneuver | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pikysyry%20maneuver | Pikysyry maneuver
Pikysyry maneuver
The Pikysyry maneuver was a tactic used by Brazilian marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, during the Paraguayan War to outflank the Paraguayan southern defense line along the stream of Pikysyry consisting of 142 gun platforms along a line 9.1 km long, built by the Bri... | 31,255 |
3448799 | Pikysyry maneuver | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pikysyry%20maneuver | Pikysyry maneuver
of the Paraguay River. An additional 2,925 infantry, 327 pontoniers, 198 artillerymen and 94 cavalry were landed and overall command for building the road was the responsibility of Lt. Col. Rufino Galvao of the Engineers. The road was constructed of palm tree trunks. On 27 Nov. Marshal Caxias moved hi... | 31,256 |
3448799 | Pikysyry maneuver | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pikysyry%20maneuver | Pikysyry maneuver
ay, the Allied army was ready to capture the Paraguayan defenses at Pikysyry. A column of 2,700 men under Gen. João Manuel Mena Barreto mounted a flanking movement while troops under Gen. Gelly y Obes made a simultaneous feint to the front. The 21 Dec. attack was a complete surprise to the Paraguayans... | 31,257 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
P. J. Soles
Pamela Jayne Soles (née Hardon; born July 17, 1950) is a German-born American actress. She made her film debut in 1976 as Norma Watson in Brian De Palma's "Carrie" (1976) before portraying Lynda van der Klok in John Carpenter's "Halloween" (1978) and Riff Randell in Allan Arkush's "Rock 'n' Rol... | 31,258 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
father from Rotterdam, Cornelis Johannes Hardon II. At the time, her father was working for an international insurance company and the family moved all over the world. Soles lived in Casablanca, Morocco, and Maracaibo, Venezuela, where she learned to speak fluent Spanish, and then Brussels, Belgium, where s... | 31,259 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
to Manhattan and began acting in commercials and modeling for fashion magazines, and relocated to Los Angeles in 1975. She was among the hundreds of actors auditioning for Brian De Palma and George Lucas in their joint casting session for "Carrie" (1976) and "Star Wars" (1977).
She originally auditioned fo... | 31,260 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
a fire hose during the prom scene ruptured her eardrum.
The same year, she reunited with "Carrie" co-star John Travolta in Randal Kleiser's television film "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble". Subsequently, she went to Georgia to film "Our Winning Season" (1978) and met actor Dennis Quaid. They were married in... | 31,261 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
because of the way she said the word "totally".
The following year, Soles was cast as Riff Randell in the musical comedy film "Rock 'n' Roll High School" (1979) with The Ramones. She has a singing credit for a second version of the title song on the movie's soundtrack. She reprised the role of Riff Randell... | 31,262 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
Jessica Lange as Wanda in Karel Reisz's biographical film "Sweet Dreams". In 1999, Soles was cast in the black comedy film "Jawbreaker". Soles appeared in The Donnas' music video for "Too Bad About Your Girl" (2003) as her character Riff Randell from "Rock 'n' Roll High School". In 2005, Soles played the vi... | 31,263 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
in 1973, when she resided in New York, but then made the move to Los Angeles to work in television and movies. She and Soles subsequently divorced in 1975, although she decided to retain the name P.J. Soles. She was later married to actor Dennis Quaid from 1978 until their divorce in early 1983. Later that ... | 31,264 |
3448717 | P. J. Soles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=P.%20J.%20Soles | P. J. Soles
r divorce in early 1983. Later that same year, she married Skip Holm, who was a stunt pilot on "The Right Stuff" (1983). They have a son named Sky (born 1983) and a daughter named Ashley (born 1988). She and Holm were divorced in 1998.
# In popular culture.
- American alternative rock band Local H release... | 31,265 |
3448801 | List of districts of Uttarakhand | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20districts%20of%20Uttarakhand | List of districts of Uttarakhand
List of districts of Uttarakhand
A district of Uttarakhand state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate (earlier called District Collector), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrates are assisted by a number of ... | 31,266 |
3448801 | List of districts of Uttarakhand | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20districts%20of%20Uttarakhand | List of districts of Uttarakhand
issues. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Police Service.
A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service IFS, is responsible for managing the Forests, environment and wild-life related issues of the district. He is assisted by the off... | 31,267 |
3448801 | List of districts of Uttarakhand | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20districts%20of%20Uttarakhand | List of districts of Uttarakhand
Proposed districts.
- Didihat, from Pithoragarh district
- Kashipur, from Udham Singh Nagar district
- Kotdwar, from Pauri Garhwal district
- Ramnagar, from Nainital district
- Ranikhet, from Almora district
- Rishikesh, from Dehradun district, Tehri Garhwal district, and Pauri Ga... | 31,268 |
3448801 | List of districts of Uttarakhand | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20districts%20of%20Uttarakhand | List of districts of Uttarakhand
d districts.
- Didihat, from Pithoragarh district
- Kashipur, from Udham Singh Nagar district
- Kotdwar, from Pauri Garhwal district
- Ramnagar, from Nainital district
- Ranikhet, from Almora district
- Rishikesh, from Dehradun district, Tehri Garhwal district, and Pauri Garhwal d... | 31,269 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
Atom laser
An atom laser is a coherent state of propagating atoms. They are created out of a Bose–Einstein condensate of atoms that are output coupled using various techniques. Much like an optical laser, an atom laser is a coherent beam that behaves like a wave. There has been some argument that the term "... | 31,270 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
a conservative trap, from the atom laser itself, which is a propagating atomic wave obtained by extraction from a previously realized BEC. Some ongoing experimental research tries to obtain directly an atom laser from a "hot" beam of atoms without making a trapped BEC first.
# Introduction.
The first pulse... | 31,271 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
of atom lasers along with different techniques for output coupling and in general research. The current developmental stage of the atom laser is analogous to that of the optical laser during its discovery in the 1960s. To that effect the equipment and techniques are in their earliest developmental phases and... | 31,272 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
not (atoms therefore propagate at a speed below that of light). The van der Waals interaction of atoms with surfaces makes it difficult to make the atomic mirrors, typical for conventional lasers.
A pseudo-continuously operating atom laser was demonstrated for the first time by Theodor Hänsch, Immanuel Bloc... | 31,273 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
(i.e. the duty cycle is 1/100).
# Applications.
Atom lasers are critical for atom holography. Similar to conventional holography, atom holography uses the diffraction of atoms. The De Broglie wavelength of the atoms is much smaller than the wavelength of light, so atom lasers can create much higher resolut... | 31,274 |
3448809 | Atom laser | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atom%20laser | Atom laser
rometer an atomic wave packet is coherently split into two wave packets that follow different paths before recombining. Atom interferometers, which can be more sensitive than optical interferometers, could be used to test quantum theory, and have such high precision that they may even be able to detect chang... | 31,275 |
3448797 | Area code 951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Area%20code%20951 | Area code 951
Area code 951
Area code 951 is a California telephone area code that was split from area code 909 on July 17, 2004. It covers western Riverside County, including the cities and communities of Beaumont, Corona, Canyon Lake, Riverside, Temescal Canyon, Woodcrest, Arlington, Moreno Valley, Perris, Menifee, ... | 31,276 |
3448797 | Area code 951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Area%20code%20951 | Area code 951
of cities and communities in the 951 area code.
## Riverside County.
- Aguanga
- Anza
- Banning
- Beaumont
- Cabazon
- Calimesa
- Canyon Lake
- Cherry Valley
- Corona
- East Hemet
- Eastvale
- Hemet
- Highgrove
- Home Gardens
- Homeland
- Idyllwild-Pine Cove
- Jurupa Valley
- Lake Elsin... | 31,277 |
3448797 | Area code 951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Area%20code%20951 | Area code 951
Hemet
- Eastvale
- Hemet
- Highgrove
- Home Gardens
- Homeland
- Idyllwild-Pine Cove
- Jurupa Valley
- Lake Elsinore
- Lakeland Village
- Lakeview
- March Air Reserve Base
- Menifee
- Moreno Valley
- Murrieta
- Norco
- Nuevo
- Perris
- Riverside
- San Jacinto
- Temecula
- Valle Vista
... | 31,278 |
3448836 | Venskus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venskus | Venskus
Venskus
Venskus, a common Lithuanian surname, is the shortened Lithuanian translation of the Polish name, Wenceslaus. Wenceslaus II (1271-1305), King of Bohemia, crowned himself King of Poland in 1300. In an attempt to strengthen the power of the Crown, Wenceslaus II undertook a series of initiatives to underm... | 31,279 |
3448813 | OpenBGPD | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenBGPD | OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD
OpenBGPD is a server software program that allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4. This allows a machine to exchange routes with other systems that speak BGP.
OpenBGP... | 31,280 |
3448813 | OpenBGPD | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenBGPD | OpenBGPD
and quality standards.
# Goals.
The design goals of OpenBGPD include being secure (non-exploitable), reliable, and lean enough for most users, both in size and memory usage. The configuration language should be both powerful and easy to use. It must also be able to quickly handle hundreds of thousands of tab... | 31,281 |
3448813 | OpenBGPD | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OpenBGPD | OpenBGPD
housands of table entries in a memory-efficient way.
# Design.
OpenBGPD consists of a parent process, and two child processes: the Route Decision Engine (RDE), and the Session Engine (SE). The parent process is the only part that doesn't drop privileges; the others do, in the interest of non-exploitability. ... | 31,282 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
2010 United States Census
The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-rep... | 31,283 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
which all 100 largest cities recorded populations of over 200,000.
# Introduction.
As required by the United States Constitution, the U.S. census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. The 2000 U.S. Census was the previous census completed. Participation in the U.S. Census is required... | 31,284 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
was approximately 134 million on April 1, 2010. Although the questionnaire used April 1, 2010 as the reference date as to where a person was living, an insert dated March 15, 2010 included the following printed in bold type: "Please complete and mail back the enclosed census form today."
The ... | 31,285 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
information will be available in 2082.
# Major changes.
The Census Bureau did not use a long form for the 2010 Census. In several previous censuses, one in six households received this long form, which asked for detailed social and economic information. The 2010 Census used only a short form... | 31,286 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
for owned with a mortgage, owned free and clear, rented, occupied without rent.]
- 4. What is your telephone number?
- 5. What is Person 1's name? (last, first)
- 6. What is Person 1's sex? (male, female)
- 7. What is Person 1's age and Person 1's date of birth?
- 8. Is Person 1 of Hispan... | 31,287 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
for up to twelve residents total.
In contrast to the 2000 census, an Internet response option was not offered, nor was the form available for download.
Detailed socioeconomic information collected during past censuses will continue to be collected through the American Community Survey. The s... | 31,288 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
However, the final form did not contain a separate "same-sex married couple" option. When noting the relationship between household members, same-sex couples who are married could mark their spouses as being "Husband or wife", the same response given by opposite-sex married couples. An "unmarr... | 31,289 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
(GAO) noted that the cost of conducting the census has approximately doubled each decade since 1970. In a detailed 2004 report to Congress, the GAO called on the Census Bureau to address cost and design issues, and at that time, had estimated the 2010 Census cost to be $11 billion.
In August ... | 31,290 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
and
- the $800 million emergency fund was not needed.
Locke credited the management practices of Census Bureau director Robert Groves, citing in particular the decision to buy additional advertising in locations where responses lagged, which improved the overall response rate. The agency als... | 31,291 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
data for the census. The contract included systems, facilities, and staffing. The final value of that contract was in excess of one billion dollars. Information technology was about a quarter of the projected $11.3 billion cost of the decennial census. The use of high-speed document scanning t... | 31,292 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
the 2009 Senate confirmation hearings for Robert Groves, President Obama's Census Director appointee, there was much mention of contracting problems but very little criticism of the units themselves. In rural areas there was a problem with transmission of data to and from the HHC. Since the un... | 31,293 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
surrounding previous censuses that poor people and non-whites are routinely undercounted, for the 2010 census, the Census Bureau tried to avoid that bias by enlisting tens of thousands of intermediaries, such as churches, charities and firms, to explain to people the importance of being counte... | 31,294 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
undercover videos showing four ACORN staffers giving tax advice to a man and a woman posing as a prostitute, the Bureau canceled ACORN's contract. Various American celebrities, including Demi Lovato and Eva Longoria, were used in public service announcements targeting younger people to fill ou... | 31,295 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
workers had been victims of crime while conducting the census. As of June 29, there were 436 incidents involving assaults or threats against enumerators, more than double the 181 incidents in 2000; one enumerator, attempting to hand-deliver the census forms to a Hawaii County police officer, w... | 31,296 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
to indicate the number of people living in her household because "the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that." Former Republican Representative and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr stated that the census has become too intrusive, going beyond the mere enumeration (... | 31,297 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
to fill out their forms, in the hope of avoiding an undercount of this group. The 2010 U.S. Census was the primary sponsor at NASCAR races in Atlanta, Bristol, and Martinsville, and sponsored the No. 16 Ford Fusion driven by Greg Biffle for part of the season, because of a marketing survey tha... | 31,298 |
3448729 | 2010 United States Census | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2010%20United%20States%20Census | 2010 United States Census
Consequently, this affected the number of votes each state has in the Electoral College for the 2012 presidential election.
Because of population changes, eighteen states had changes in their number of seats. Eight states gained at least one seat, and ten states lost at least one seat. The fi... | 31,299 |
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