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2507854 | Trinity Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trinity%20Bay%20(Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador) | Trinity Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)
valon Peninsula lies to the east of the main landmass of Newfoundland Island.
Major fishing communities include Trinity and Heart's Content. The smaller communities in Newfoundland may often be referenced by the Bay in which they are located, e.g.: 'Brownsdale, TB'.
# Industry.... | 33,600 |
2507903 | WPXU | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WPXU | WPXU
WPXU
WPXU may refer to:
- WPXU-TV, a television station (channel 35 analog/34 digital) licensed to serve Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States
- WPXU-LD, a defunct low-power television station (channel 38) formerly licensed to serve Amityville, New York, United States
- WBUI, a television station (channe... | 33,601 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
The Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, usually known as OICCU ( ), is the world's second oldest university Christian Union and is the University of Oxford's most prominent student Christian organisation. It was formed in 1879.
Due t... | 33,602 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
are eligible only for associate membership, and their needs may be better served by the Oxford Graduate Christian Forum.
# Aims and Purpose.
The OICCU vision is:
"Giving every student in Oxford University the chance to hear and respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ"
The three... | 33,603 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
part of a local church and to contribute to that family of believers.
- OICCU has the opportunity as a student run organisation to put on events uniquely geared to what its members think its fellow-students want.
- OICCU also has the opportunity to be prominent in the college c... | 33,604 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
to put on events geared towards evangelising the individual college communities. There is a college Christian Union group in almost every undergraduate college in the University. "Text-a-toastie" is a popular college outreach event. The collegiate structure also enables students ... | 33,605 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
speakers, music and opportunities to hear about God's work in Oxford and further abroad.
- "Monday Morning Prayer": The members of OICCU pray together regularly, recognising their belief that everything they do is useless if God is not at work. Central events are a resource to b... | 33,606 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
members, in particular the "Freshaway" event, which was first held in September 2016, and aims to help new students ("freshers") make Christian friends in the university, alongside seminars and talks to train and equip Christians for evangelism.
- "The Search" is an event which ... | 33,607 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
The doctrinal basis contains what evangelicals perceive as the biblical foundations of Christianity. UCCF is in turn affiliated with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
# History.
## Foundation.
OICCU was modelled after the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate C... | 33,608 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
was a founder member of the Student Christian Movement and followed its lead in liberalizing its doctrine. In 1914 OICCU, along with the rest of the University, suspended its activities.
After World War I, the Oxford SCM was reestablished under that name, but those who held OICC... | 33,609 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
Basis of the new Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (now UCCF) in 1928.
During much of this period, OICCU used some of the buildings later incorporated into St Peter's College. However, after 1933 it had the use of the Northgate Hall (just opposite the Oxford Union o... | 33,610 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
Moral Re-Armament. The emphasis on small groups and personal belief was inherited by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Buchman was appealing directly to the OICCU constituency, and Julian Thornton-Duesbury (one of OICCU's supervising university teachers) became a noted Buchmanite. However, ... | 33,611 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
for much more than the customary one year of office. However, the Union maintained daily prayer meetings (in termtime) throughout the War. Afterwards, a Standing Committee of prominent past members was established to ensure the Union's long-term continuity in such circumstances a... | 33,612 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
enough to join the Executive Committee. However, he was appointed Librarian, taking a particular interest in OICCU's selection of out-of-print Puritan books. In the following decade Packer, along with Martyn Lloyd-Jones, led a revival of Puritan studies amongst British pastors. H... | 33,613 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
a particular interest in promoting the Charismatic Movement, including within OICCU.
In a slightly later generation, Tom Wright was the OICCU President (1970–71) and published his first book together with other members of his year's Executive Committee. The book was a plea for a... | 33,614 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
Michael Green, Dick Lucas (long-time rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate), John Stott; one of Stott's series of talks was subsequently published as "Basic Christianity", and Tim Keller.
OICCU membership has diminished since the middle part of the century, and now usually stands in ... | 33,615 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
it has the use of a small store room at St Ebbe's church and New Road Baptist Church.
# See also.
- Holy Club
- Oxford University Newman Society
# Bibliography.
- "Born Anew" John S. Reynolds : Oxford, OICCU Centenary & Executive Committees, 1979.
- "Meeting Jesus at Univer... | 33,616 |
2507826 | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20Inter-Collegiate%20Christian%20Union | Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union
, 1735-1871 : a record of an unchronicled movement, with the record extended to 1905, and an essay on Oxford evangelical theology" John S. Reynolds with J. I. Packer : Abingdon, Marcham Manor Press, 1975.
- "The Evangelicals at Oxford, 1735-1871 : a record of an unchronicled mov... | 33,617 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
Oxford University Dramatic Society
The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England. Not all student productions at Oxford University are a... | 33,618 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
can use the society's services, such as the website, the auditions portal, and advice from the committee, providing their production company is registered.
The Society supports a competition for Freshers ("Cuppers"), held in Michaelmas Term and a "New Writing Festival" in Hilary Term... | 33,619 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
Club'.
# Alumni.
Many famous actors have participated in OUDS productions. For example, in 1907 professional actresses Lily Brayton and her sister Agnes appeared as Katherine and Bianca in "The Taming of the Shrew;" John Gielgud made his directing debut at OUDS in 1932 with a produc... | 33,620 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
Rowan Atkinson
- Helen Atkinson-Wood
- Peter Bayley
- Timothy Bateson
- John Betjeman
- Will Bowen
- Gyles Brandreth
- Richard Burton
- Kate Beckinsale
- Eve Best
- Shirley Catlin
- Caryl Churchill
- Michael Codron
- Alan Cooke
- Alex Cox
- Jonathan Cullen
- Richard Cu... | 33,621 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
Parkinson
- Roger Parry
- Esther Rantzen
- Diana Quick*
- Gervais Rentoul
- Gillian Reynolds*
- Tony Richardson
- John Schlesinger
- Thea Sharrock
- Maggie Smith
- Mel Smith
- Imogen Stubbs
- Mabel Terry-Lewis
- Kenneth Tynan
- Evelyn Waugh
- David William
- Emlyn Will... | 33,622 |
2507884 | Oxford University Dramatic Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxford%20University%20Dramatic%20Society | Oxford University Dramatic Society
ie Smith
- Mel Smith
- Imogen Stubbs
- Mabel Terry-Lewis
- Kenneth Tynan
- Evelyn Waugh
- David William
- Emlyn Williams
- John Wood
- Dornford Yates
- Owain Yeoman
- Michael York
- Francesca Amewudah-Rivers
* Note that women could not formally join OUDS until 1963. Diana... | 33,623 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
Clifton, Cincinnati
Clifton is a neighborhood in the north central part of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The population was 8,304 at the 2010 census.
The area includes the Ludlow Avenue Shopping and Dining District. Clifton is situated around Clifton Avenue, north of Dixmyth Avenue, approximate... | 33,624 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
grounds of gardens, parkland and woodlands dominated the northern section of Clifton, farther from the city. Their gates and gatehouses were spaced at intervals along Lafayette Avenue. In the southern section, denser settlement flanked a growing business district along Ludlow Avenue, centered on its... | 33,625 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
or have been demolished, like Alexander McDonald's baronial mansion designed by Samuel Hannaford, the pre-eminent estate architect in later nineteenth-century Cincinnati; it was demolished in the 1960s to make way for an annex to the Clifton School: only a 150-year-old yew ("Taxus cuspidata capitata... | 33,626 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
to as "Clifton" despite being several distinct and separate neighborhoods. Hebrew Union College, which settled near the University, and the Sacred Heart Academy in Clifton helped to contribute to the intellectual and bohemian atmosphere of the neighborhood.
# Culture.
The Ludlow Avenue business di... | 33,627 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
and dining and drinking establishments situated along Ludlow and intersecting streets.
Clifton is situated on the hill overlooking Northside, Cincinnati. The historic Ludlow Avenue district was recently included in one episode of "Who Do You Think You Are", in which Sarah Jessica Parker traced her ... | 33,628 |
2507880 | Clifton, Cincinnati | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifton,%20Cincinnati | Clifton, Cincinnati
You Are", in which Sarah Jessica Parker traced her ancestry on the maternal side of her family. Speaking on camera that she is revisiting her old neighborhood of Clifton, Parker was filmed walking down Ludlow Avenue on a wintery day and entered the Clifton branch of the Cincinnati Public Library on ... | 33,629 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
Struvite
Struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) is a phosphate mineral with formula: NHMgPO·6HO. Struvite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system as white to yellowish or brownish-white pyramidal crystals or in platey mica-like forms. It is a soft mineral with Mohs hardness of 1.5 to 2 and has a low specific... | 33,630 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
protein, in domestic cats.
# Name.
Struvite was first described in 1845 by the German chemist (1811–1883), who found crystals of struvite in what he surmised had once been a medieval midden in Hamburg, Germany ; he named the new mineral after the geographer and geologist (1772–1851) of Hamburg.
# Occurrence... | 33,631 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
forming kidney stones. Struvite is the most common mineral found in urinary tract stones in dogs, and is found also in urinary tract stones of cats and humans. Struvite stones are potentiated by bacterial infection that hydrolyzes urea to ammonium and raises urine pH to neutral or alkaline values. Urea-splitti... | 33,632 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
in large amounts in cat urine that acts to produce a feline pheromone, has recently been found to cause nucleation of struvite crystals in a model system containing the ions necessary to form struvite. This may explain some of the excess struvite production in domestic cats. In the past, surgery has been requi... | 33,633 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
matrix.
## Struvite enteroliths.
Struvite is a common mineral found in enteroliths (intestinal concretions) in horses.
## Wastewater treatment.
Struvite can be a problem in sewage and waste water treatment, particularly after anaerobic digesters release ammonium and phosphate from waste material. Struvite ... | 33,634 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
the urea in wastewater, and phosphate, which is found through food, soaps and detergents. These elements in place, struvite is more likely to form in a high pH environment, where there is higher conductivity, lower temperatures, and higher concentrations of magnesium, ammonia and phosphate. Recovery of phospho... | 33,635 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
to solve this issue, including replacing the pipes, or using a hydro-jetter or a mechanical grinder to clear them. But many lines can be underground and either of these options implies considerable downtime and labor. Chemical cleaning is now predominately used to clear systems of struvite. Chemical cleaning p... | 33,636 |
2507841 | Struvite | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Struvite | Struvite
r a mechanical grinder to clear them. But many lines can be underground and either of these options implies considerable downtime and labor. Chemical cleaning is now predominately used to clear systems of struvite. Chemical cleaning products have been developed to remove and prevent struvite with minimal downt... | 33,637 |
2507926 | C. Louis Leipoldt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C.%20Louis%20Leipoldt | C. Louis Leipoldt
C. Louis Leipoldt
Christian Frederik Louis Leipoldt, usually referred to as C. Louis Leipoldt, ( 28 December 1880 – 12 April 1947) was a South African poet, dramatist, medical doctor, reporter and food expert. Together with Jan F. E. Celliers and J. D. du Toit, he was one of the leading figures in th... | 33,638 |
2507926 | C. Louis Leipoldt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C.%20Louis%20Leipoldt | C. Louis Leipoldt
Christian Friedrich Leipoldt, of the NG Kerk in Clanwilliam and grandson of the Rhenish missionary, Johann Gottlieb Leipoldt, who founded Wupperthal in the Cederberg. His mother was Anna Meta Christiana Esselen, daughter of Louis Franz Esselen (1817–1893), another Rhenish missionary at Worcester. His ... | 33,639 |
2507926 | C. Louis Leipoldt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C.%20Louis%20Leipoldt | C. Louis Leipoldt
Joseph Pulitzer, aboard Pulitzer's yacht.
Later Leipoldt's career was varied. For a period he was a school doctor in London before becoming the Medical Inspector of Schools in the Transvaal and then in the Cape Province. He returned to journalism for a while (1923) but finally settled down as a paedi... | 33,640 |
2507926 | C. Louis Leipoldt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C.%20Louis%20Leipoldt | C. Louis Leipoldt
sandstone that were made by Bushmen many years before his death. Leipoldt had an adopted son, Jeffery Barnet Leipoldt. Jeffery died on 21 November 1997. His ashes were scattered on his father's grave. Jeffery had three daughters, Nerina, Karen and Desre, who live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
# Poet... | 33,641 |
2507926 | C. Louis Leipoldt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C.%20Louis%20Leipoldt | C. Louis Leipoldt
had an adopted son, Jeffery Barnet Leipoldt. Jeffery died on 21 November 1997. His ashes were scattered on his father's grave. Jeffery had three daughters, Nerina, Karen and Desre, who live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
# Poetry.
"The Worst Horror"
Leipoldt wrote much about nature in general and i... | 33,642 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
Death to America
Death to America ( "Marg bar Āmrikā") is an anti-American political slogan and chant which has been in use in Iran since the inception of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini, the first leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, popularized the term. He opposed the chant fo... | 33,643 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
"Death to Israel" (Persian: مرگ بر اسرائیل) is also used, and regularly chanted in Iranian political rallies. Iranian officials generally explain that the slogan in its historical context has been provoked by U.S. government's hostile policies towards Iran and expresses outrage at those policies, and d... | 33,644 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
and Pompeo as well as down with the American politicians.
# Overview.
Following the fall of the pro-American Pahlavi dynasty in early 1979, Iranian protesters regularly shouted "Death to America" and "Death to the Shah" outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran, including the day the embassy was seized on N... | 33,645 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
"Death to the Soviet Union" and "Death to England" also became popular. The best known variation was "Death to Israel".
Throughout the existence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the slogan has formed a pillar of its revolutionary values. It is regularly chanted at Friday prayers and other public event... | 33,646 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
Khomeini agreed in principle to drop the usage of the slogan in 1984. Rafsanjani's statement was rejected by his hard line opponents who said that "The Imam throughout his life called America 'the Great Satan'. He believed that all the Muslims' problems were caused by America."
According to "Politico"... | 33,647 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
on his website on November 3, 2015, Khamenei said: "It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the U.S.'s policies, death to arrogance."
On June 23, 2017, during Quds Day, protestors chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”. On... | 33,648 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
chant during a solidarity trip to Iran, ahead of sanctions expected to be imposed by the Trump administration.
# Use outside of Iran.
Supporters of Hezbollah, the Shi'a Islamic militant group based in Lebanon that is closely aligned to Iran, regularly chant "Death to America" in street demonstrations... | 33,649 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
supported by Iran, is "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam."
Supporters of Imamia Students Organisation in Pakistan mark 16th of May every year as Death to America day for its recognition of Israel. This was declared by their leader Arif Hussain al ... | 33,650 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
full of innocent passengers" (referring to Iran Air flight 655, an Iranian airliner shot down by an American naval vessel). "For them, it's not the people of America, per se. For them, they are opposed to that sort of policy, that sort of attitude, that sort of arrogance. It's not a nation. It's a syst... | 33,651 |
2507881 | Death to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death%20to%20America | Death to America
eally want death to anyone. The slogan is simply against the interference of those governments [i.e. US, and Israel]".
Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani has also dismissed the literal interpretation of the slogan, stating that the slogan is to express opposition to US intrusive policies rather than ha... | 33,652 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
Olga Chekhova
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova, born Knipper ( (14 April 1897, Aleksandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (now Gyumri, Armenia) – 9 March 1980, Munich, West Germany) was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's "Mary" (1931).
# Biography.
... | 33,653 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
him the same year, taking his surname as her own. Their daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916.
During the year of the 1917 October Revolution, Chekhova divorced her husband but kept his name. In the first year of the revolution, she joined a cabaret-theatre group called Sorokonozhka (The Little Cen... | 33,654 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
role in The Cherry Orchard.
She managed to get a travel passport from the Soviet government, possibly in exchange for her cooperation, which led to permission to leave Russia. She was accompanied by a Soviet agent on a train to Vienna, then she moved to Berlin in 1920. Her first cinema role in Germany wa... | 33,655 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
published photograph of her sitting beside Hitler at a reception gave the leaders of the Soviet intelligence service the impression that she had close contacts with Hitler. She had more contact with the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, who referred to her in his diaries as "eine charmante Frau" ("... | 33,656 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
success in the motion picture industry. Her filmography includes 138 credits as an actor, director, producer and sound between 1917 and 1974. After the war she lived in the Soviet sector of Berlin, but eventually she managed to escape from her Soviet contacts. In 1949, she moved to Munich, Bavaria, and la... | 33,657 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
became actresses.
# Selected filmography.
- "Anya Kraeva" (1917)
- "Kaliostro" (1918)
- "Poslednie priklucheniya Arsena Lupena" (1918)
- "Schloß Vogelöd" (1921)
- "Violet" (1921)
- "Impostor" (1921)
- "The Circle of Death" (1922)
- "The Pagoda" (1923)
- "Nora" (1923)
- "The Lost Shoe" (1923)
-... | 33,658 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
the Fire " (1926)
- "The Mill at Sanssouci" (1926)
- "His Late Excellency" (1927)
- "Aftermath" (1927)
- "The Italian Straw Hat" (1927)
- "Pawns of Passion" (1928)
- "Moulin Rouge" (1928)
- "Woman in Flames" (1928)
- "After the Verdict" (1929)
- "The Love of the Brothers Rott" (1929)
- "Darling ... | 33,659 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
"The Country Schoolmaster" (1933)
- "A Love Story" (1933)
- "The World Without a Mask" (1934)
- "Peer Gynt" (1934)
- "Maskerade" (1934)
- "Regine" (1935)
- "Asew" (1935)
- "Artist Love" (1935)
- "The Eternal Mask" (1935)
- "Ein Walzer um den Stephansturm" (1935)
- " The Empress's Favourite " (19... | 33,660 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
(1939)
- "Bel Ami" (1939)
- "Liberated Hands" (1939)
- "Angelika" (1940)
- "Passion" (1940)
- "The Fox of Glenarvon" (1940)
- "Menschen im Sturm" (1941)
- "Mit den Augen einer Frau" (1942)
- "Andreas Schlüter" (1942)
- Reise in die Vergangenheit (1943)
- Gefährlicher Frühling (1943)
- "The Eter... | 33,661 |
2507892 | Olga Chekhova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga%20Chekhova | Olga Chekhova
Wanted to Live Twice" (1950)
- Maharadscha wider Willen (1950)
- Eine Frau mit Herz (1950)
- "Two in One Suit" (1950)
- "Trouble in Paradise" (1950)
- Das Geheimnis einer Ehe (1951)
- "My Friend the Thief" (1951)
- Begierde (1951)
- "Behind Monastery Walls" (1952)
- "Alles für Papa" (1953)
- " E... | 33,662 |
2507937 | Ebersdorf bei Coburg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ebersdorf%20bei%20Coburg | Ebersdorf bei Coburg
Ebersdorf bei Coburg
Ebersdorf bei Coburg is a municipality in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany.
# Geography.
## Location.
Ebersdorf lies on the upper course of the river Füllbach, a tributary of the Itz, and at the northern edge of the Lichtenfels Forest ("Lichtenfelser Forst").
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g is a municipality in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany.
# Geography.
## Location.
Ebersdorf lies on the upper course of the river Füllbach, a tributary of the Itz, and at the northern edge of the Lichtenfels Forest ("Lichtenfelser Forst").
## Subdivisions.
Ebersdorf is divided int... | 33,664 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
Blue Earth River
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The Blue Earth River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 108 miles (174 km) long, in southern Minnesota in the United States. Two of its headwaters tributaries, the Middle Branch Blue Earth River and the West Branch Blue Earth River, also flow for short distances in northern ... | 33,665 |
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of Natural Resources designated Water Trail.
# History.
The river was named for former deposits of bluish-green clay, no longer visible, along the banks of the river. The stream was called "Makato Osa Watapa" by the Dakota Indians, meaning "the river where blue earth is gathered." The French explorer... | 33,666 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
from which the clay had been dug by Native Americans in the region, who used it as body paint; he found no evidence of Le Sueur's mines, nor of the fort.
# Geography.
The Blue Earth River begins at the confluence of its west and middle branches, approximately five miles (8 km) north of Elmore in sout... | 33,667 |
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Both headwaters tributaries have been channelized for much of their courses.
From their confluence the Blue Earth River flows northwardly in a winding course through eastern Faribault County into Blue Earth County, past the cities of Blue Earth, Winnebago, and Vernon Center, to Mankato, where it enter... | 33,668 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
upstream of its mouth; and the Watonwan River, which it collects upstream of its mouth. The two rivers drain 31% and 24% of the Blue Earth's watershed, respectively. Tributaries of the river in its upper course include the East Branch Blue Earth River, long, which rises in southwestern Freeborn County ... | 33,669 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
lake, Union Slough, drains in two directions, south into the East Fork of the Des Moines River and north, as Union Slough, into the West Branch of the Blue Earth River. The lower (northern) part of the river's watershed was historically covered by the Big Woods, a tract of hardwoods that has since been... | 33,670 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
Earth River's watershed is used for agricultural cultivation, primarily that of corn and soybeans. The river is one of the most polluted in Minnesota, with elevated levels of sediment, bacteria, nitrates, phosphorus, mercury, PCBs, and pesticides, contributed in part by runoff in the watershed. Fecal c... | 33,671 |
2507863 | Blue Earth River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue%20Earth%20River | Blue Earth River
levels considered by the state government to be unsafe for swimming.
# Flow rate.
The United States Geological Survey operates a stream gauge on the Blue Earth River below Rapidan Dam in Rapidan Township, downstream of the mouth of the Watonwan River and upstream of the mouth of the Le Sueur River, a... | 33,672 |
2507930 | Magna Science Adventure Centre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magna%20Science%20Adventure%20Centre | Magna Science Adventure Centre
Magna Science Adventure Centre
Magna Science Adventure Centre is an educational visitor attraction, appealing primarily to children. It is located in a disused steel mill in the Templeborough district of Rotherham, England. The site used to be home to the Steel, Peech and Tozer steel wor... | 33,673 |
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and has received other awards for the high quality of product.
The creative, development, funding and building process was led by Stephen Feber, who selected the design team, led by architects WilkinsonEyre and exhibition designers Event Communications. Tim Caulton directed exhibition de... | 33,674 |
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MacDonald and Buro Happold's innovative use of space in the old steelworks. Visitors are often as impressed by the building itself as the attractions contained within it.
# "The Big Melt".
Every hour, on the hour, Magna holds a display called "The Big Melt". Its purpose is to demonstrat... | 33,675 |
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e until the steelworks closed in 1993. An authentic looking furnace is imitated with several fog, spark, flame and smoke machines, loudspeakers, lights, and blasts of rapidly burning propane which are ignited at appropriate points in the show. The show can be repeated up to four times an ... | 33,676 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
The Barbarians (band)
The Barbarians were an American garage rock band formed in Cape Cod, Massachusetts that were active between 1964 and 1967, and briefly re-formed in 1973 to cut an album under a different lineup. At the height of their popularity, the band was touted as an American counterpar... | 33,677 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
the summer of 1964 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, by original members Victor "Moulty" Moulton, Bruce Benson, Ronnie Enos, and Jerry Causi. The band was quickly assembled by Moulton, who had agreed to do a gig at The Rumpus Room, an ex-jazz club where his cousin worked. After packing the house for... | 33,678 |
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You a Boy or Are You a Girl?," peaking at No. 55) and also made the Cash Box charts. "Are You a Boy" was co-written by Doug Morris, who went on to head Universal Music Group.
They received their biggest break when featured on "The T.A.M.I. Show" (performing "Hey Little Bird") alongside other arti... | 33,679 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
his left drumstick during performances. Having lost the hand in an explosion when he was fourteen, Moulton had enabled his drumming by modifying the prosthesis to hold a drumstick.
A later, minor hit, entitled "Moulty", was a humorous and melodramatic autobiographical song chronicling the drummer... | 33,680 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
replaced Ronnie Enos on lead guitar, providing the arrangement of "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?," a song parodying the trend towards long hair popularized by British Invasion rock acts, such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, which was regarded at the time by parents as a bad influence on ... | 33,681 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
rehearsing nearly every day at a Karate dojo owned by Moulton's brother-in-law.
The Ramones' song, "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?," which appears as the opening cut on their "End of the Century" album, includes "Moulty" (drummer Victor Moulton) in the litany of rock and roll figures and in... | 33,682 |
2507939 | The Barbarians (band) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Barbarians%20(band) | The Barbarians (band)
LLP-2033 (mono); SLP-2033 (stereo). Tracks: Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl / Mr. Tambourine Man / House of the Rising Sun / Marie Elena / Bo Diddley / Memphis, Tennessee // What the New Breed Say / Take It or Leave It / I'll Keep on Seeing You / Linguica / Susie Q / I've Got a Woman
# National c... | 33,683 |
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on Bubbling under charts 6 weeks. Did not proceed to Hot 100 Chart.
- "Moulty." Debuted on February 26, 1966, peaked at No. 90, stayed on charts 4 weeks.
## Cash Box.
- "Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl." Debuted on September 18, 1965, peaked at No. 62, and stayed on the charts for 7 weeks.
- "... | 33,684 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
Spritsail
The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit. The foot of the sail can be stretched by a boom or held loose-footed just by its sheets. A spritsail has four corners: the throat, peak, clew, and t... | 33,685 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
a sprit ( ). The forward end of the sprit spar is attached to the mast, with the after end of the sprit spar attached to the peak. The sprit is steadied and controlled from the deck by a pair of wire vangs ( ) attached to the peak of the sail. It is said to be the ancestor of the common gaff rig that evolved ... | 33,686 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
by chain stanliffs (standing lifts) from the hounds at the mast head at an angle of about 30° from vertical, with sprit to the starboard side of the mast. The heel of the sprit is secured to the mast, by the "muzzle", which allows the sprit is free to move laterally, nearly as far to each side as the shrouds.... | 33,687 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
was usually found on fore-and-aft rigged vessels to keep the mainsail in an aerodynamically efficient shape.) Such loose-footed sails can also be found on gaff-rigged Norfolk wherrys and the bawley class of vessel. The spritsail was a feature of the Cromster where the ability to furl the foot of the sail and ... | 33,688 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
and, if overpressed, will heel excessively and must be pulled to wind. The sheet will be eased and the aft end of a boom could drag in the water making the rudder ineffective and a capsize inevitable. The sheet of loose footed boomless barge is just released and control is regained. The boom does not project ... | 33,689 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
warehouses and so on.
This fine control of the sail without need for the crew to leave the deck, is achieved by "brailing up". Rather than lowering the mainsail, it is gathered up against its own luff and head by means of lines called "brails". This technique is an effective way of stowing the mainsail and g... | 33,690 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
that the sail is stowed aloft and unreachable from the deck. It also means that the sail cannot easily be covered when it is stowed, and thus protected from the elements. But in any case, the crews of working vessels did not trouble with such dainty ways. In keeping with the general philosophy of working boat... | 33,691 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
way. The windlass is below the tack of the foresail and the tackle at the foot of the forestay. In striking the gear, the foresail tack tackle had to be cast off, the bridge cleared, the skipper and an extra man (the huffler) used the windlass to raise the mast.
# Dinghies.
Modern use of the spritsail has a... | 33,692 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
sprit-boom attaches to the clew of the sail. The fore end of the boom is tensioned (pulled tight to the mast) by use of a snotter chord. On a Bolger 59 rig, there is a 14'3" luff, 13'7" leech and 9'0" foot.
# Local boats.
The spiritsail is also commonly used in a fore-and-aft rig (along with a staysail) on ... | 33,693 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
prior to the middle of the 19th century CE. Unrelated to the spritsail described above, it is an evolution of the ancient Greek artemon that was eventually made obsolete by the evolution of more efficient headsails. In the context of square-rigged vessels, the spritsail is a square sail set under the bowsprit... | 33,694 |
2507900 | Spritsail | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spritsail | Spritsail
ls. In the context of square-rigged vessels, the spritsail is a square sail set under the bowsprit; a "spritsail topsail" may be set above it, though this latter element of a square-rigged sailplan fell into disuse early in the 18th century CE. In this form, in addition to carrying the spritsail itself the sp... | 33,695 |
2507943 | Sex Discrimination Act | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sex%20Discrimination%20Act | Sex Discrimination Act
Sex Discrimination Act
The Sex Discrimination Act may refer to:
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975, in the UK
- Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002, in the UK
- Sex Discrimination Act 1984, in Australia
- The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 in the United Kingdom. | 33,696 |
2507927 | One of Us (ABBA song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One%20of%20Us%20(ABBA%20song) | One of Us (ABBA song)
One of Us (ABBA song)
"One of Us" ("En av oss" in Swedish) is the first single from Swedish pop group ABBA's final studio album "The Visitors", their eighth for Polar, and their seventh for Epic and Atlantic. It was released in December 1981. The song is also included on the compilation albums ""... | 33,697 |
2507927 | One of Us (ABBA song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One%20of%20Us%20(ABBA%20song) | One of Us (ABBA song)
output. Indeed, the message of the song was about a woman trying to revive a relationship she had ended. Despite misgivings on the part of manager Stig Anderson, and its somewhat depressing lyric, "One of Us" was released as the first single from "The Visitors", coupled with the non-album track "S... | 33,698 |
2507927 | One of Us (ABBA song) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One%20of%20Us%20(ABBA%20song) | One of Us (ABBA song)
the United Kingdom, "One of Us" was issued in a different sleeve. Whereas the sleeve used in most countries repeated the album cover photo, Epic Records wanted a different image for the British release, and used separate photos of the group members together with a large ABBA logo. Agnetha and Frid... | 33,699 |
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