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74661 | Veto | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veto | Veto
if he suspects that bill is unconstitutional or send it back to the Sejm for a second voting. If the Tribunal says that the bill is constitutional or if Sejm passes it by at least three-fifths of the votes, the President must sign the bill.
The President of Portugal may refuse to sign a bill or refer it, or parts... | 37,900 |
74661 | Veto | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veto | Veto
Parliament may overturn a veto by a two-thirds majority. If Parliament overturns his veto, the President must sign the bill within 10 days.
# Liberum veto.
In the constitution of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th and 18th centuries, there was an institution called the liberum veto. All bil... | 37,901 |
74661 | Veto | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veto | Veto
It was never exercised, however, under the rule of the strong Polish royal dynasties, which came to an end in the mid-17th century. These were followed by an elective kingship. As might be expected, the more and more frequent use of this veto power paralyzed the power of the legislature and, combined with a string... | 37,902 |
74661 | Veto | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veto | Veto
the bill becomes law. The president may also veto specific provisions on money bills without affecting other provisions on the same bill. The president cannot veto a bill due to inaction; once the bill has been received by the president, the chief executive has thirty days to veto the bill. Once the thirty-day per... | 37,903 |
74661 | Veto | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veto | Veto
omes law. The president may also veto specific provisions on money bills without affecting other provisions on the same bill. The president cannot veto a bill due to inaction; once the bill has been received by the president, the chief executive has thirty days to veto the bill. Once the thirty-day period expires,... | 37,904 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Hoyt Wilhelm
James Hoyt Wilhelm (July 26, 1922 – August 23, 2002), nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles D... | 37,905 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
occasionally as a starting pitcher, but pitched mainly as a reliever. Wilhelm won 124 games in relief, which is still the major league record. He was the first pitcher to reach 200 saves, and the first to appear in 1,000 games.
Wilhelm was nearly 30 years old when he entered the major leagues, and pitched... | 37,906 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
children born to poor tenant farmers John and Ethel (née Stanley) Wilhelm in Huntersville, North Carolina. He played baseball at Cornelius High School in Cornelius, North Carolina. Knowing he could not throw fast, he began experimenting with a knuckleball after reading about pitcher Dutch Leonard. He pract... | 37,907 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
He played his entire career with a piece of shrapnel lodged in his back as a result of this injury. He rose to the rank of staff sergeant. Wilhem was nicknamed "Old Sarge" because of his service in the military.
He returned to the Moors in 1946, following his military service. Over the 1946 and 1947 seaso... | 37,908 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
assignment in the Giants organization was in Class B with the 1948 Knoxville Smokies, for whom he registered 13 wins and 9 losses. He spent a few games that season with the Class A Jacksonville Tars of the South Atlantic League. Wilhelm returned to Jacksonville in 1949, earning a 17–12 win-loss record and ... | 37,909 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Major league career.
## Early years.
Though Wilhelm was primarily a starting pitcher in the minor leagues, he had been called up to a Giants team whose strong starting pitchers had led them to a National League (NL) pennant the year before. Giants manager Leo Durocher did not think that Wilhelm's knuckle... | 37,910 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Boston Braves, Wilhelm hit a home run over the short right-field fence at the Polo Grounds. Although he went to bat a total of 432 times in his career, he never hit another home run.
Pitching exclusively in relief, Wilhelm led the NL with a 2.43 ERA in his rookie year. He won 15 games and lost three. Wilh... | 37,911 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
the game because team manager Charlie Dressen did not think that any of the catchers could handle his knuckleball. The Giants renewed Wilhelm's contract in February 1954.
In 1954, Wilhelm was a key piece of the pitching staff that led the 1954 Giants to a world championship. He pitched 111 innings, finish... | 37,912 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Series represented Wilhelm's only career postseason play. He pitched innings over two games, earning a save in the third game. The team won the World Series in a four-game sweep.
Wilhelm's ERA increased to 3.93 over 59 games and 103 innings pitched in 1955, but he managed a 4–1 record. He finished the 195... | 37,913 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Cardinals for Whitey Lockman. At the time of the trade, St. Louis manager Fred Hutchinson described Wilhelm as the type of pitcher who "makes us a definite pennant threat ... He'll help us where we need help the most." In 40 games with the Cardinals that season, he earned 11 saves but finished with a 1–4 r... | 37,914 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
alarmed at the large number of passed balls, allowed the Baltimore Orioles to select Wilhelm off waivers on August 23, 1958. In Baltimore, Wilhelm lived near the home of third baseman Brooks Robinson and their families became close friends. On September 20 of that year, Wilhelm no-hit the eventual World Ch... | 37,915 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
from St. Louis after the 1953 season.
Orioles catchers had difficulty catching the Wilhelm knuckleball again in 1959 and they set an MLB record with 49 passed balls. During one April game, catcher Gus Triandos had four passed balls while catching for Wilhelm and he described the game as "the roughest day ... | 37,916 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Paul Richards devised a larger mitt so his catchers could handle the knuckleball. Richards was well equipped with starting pitchers during that year. By the middle of the season, he said that eight of his pitchers could serve as starters. Wilhelm started 11 of the 41 games in which he appeared. He earned a... | 37,917 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
and Al Smith. Early in that season, White Sox manager Al López said that Wilhelm had improved his pitching staff by 40 percent. He said that Wilhelm was "worth more than a 20-game winner, and he works with so little effort that he probably can last as long as Satchel Paige." He registered 21 saves and a 2.... | 37,918 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
career-low ERA (1.31) came in 1967, when he earned an 8–3 record for the White Sox with 12 saves.
In the 1968 season, Wilhelm was getting close to breaking the all-time games pitched record belonging to Cy Young (906 games). Chicago manager Eddie Stanky began to think about using Wilhelm as a starting pit... | 37,919 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
They finished 1968 with a 67–95 record.
Wilhelm was noted during this period for his mentoring of relief pitcher Wilbur Wood, who came to the 1967 White Sox in a trade. Wood sometimes threw a knuckleball upon his arrival in Chicago, but Wilhelm encouraged him to throw it full-time. By 1968, Wood won 13 ga... | 37,920 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
teams could select certain players from the established teams. The White Sox left Wilhelm unprotected, possibly because they did not believe that teams would have interest in a much older pitcher. On October 15, 1968, Wilhelm was chosen in the expansion draft by the Kansas City Royals as the 49th pick. Tha... | 37,921 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
games for the Braves, earning four saves and recording a 0.73 ERA over innings pitched. Wilhelm then spent most of the 1970 season with the Braves, pitching in 50 games for the team and earning ten saves.
On September 21, 1970, Wilhelm was selected off waivers by the Chicago Cubs, for whom he appeared in... | 37,922 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
to the Cubs and quickly back to the Braves.
Wilhelm was released by the Braves on June 29, 1971, having pitched in three games for that year's Braves. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 10, 1971, and appeared in nine games for the Dodgers, giving up two earned runs in innings. He also pitched ... | 37,923 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
major league record 1,070 games. He is recognized as the first pitcher to have saved 200 games in his career, and the first pitcher to appear in 1,000 games. Wilhelm is one of the oldest players to have pitched in the major leagues; his final appearance was 16 days short of his 50th birthday.
Wilhelm reti... | 37,924 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
the 1975 Kingsport Braves of the Appalachian League. He also worked as a minor league pitching coach for the New York Yankees for 22 years. As a coach, Wilhelm said that he did not teach pitchers the knuckleball, believing that people had to be born with a knack for throwing it. He sometimes worked individ... | 37,925 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Jim Murray criticized the voters, saying that while Wilhelm never had the look of a baseball player, he was "the best player in history at what he does." He fell short by 13 votes in 1984. Wilhelm was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985. At his induction ceremony, he said that he had achieved a... | 37,926 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
became a trend. Rather than bringing in a relief pitcher only when the starting pitcher had begun to struggle, teams increasingly called upon their relief pitchers toward the end of any close game. Wilhelm was the first relief pitcher elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
He is also remembered as one of t... | 37,927 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
League Baseball for each of his final seven seasons.
Former teammate Moose Skowron commented on Wilhelm's key pitch, saying, "Hoyt was a good guy, and he threw the best knuckleball I ever saw. You never knew what Hoyt's pitch would do. I don't think he did either." Baseball executive Roland Hemond agreed,... | 37,928 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
threw it nearly every pitch. "The New York Times" linked his knuckleball with that of modern pitcher R.A. Dickey, as Wilhelm taught pitcher Charlie Hough the knuckleball in 1971, and Hough taught it to Dickey while coaching with the Texas Rangers.
# See also.
- List of knuckleball pitchers
- List of Maj... | 37,929 |
74654 | Hoyt Wilhelm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoyt%20Wilhelm | Hoyt Wilhelm
Dickey, as Wilhelm taught pitcher Charlie Hough the knuckleball in 1971, and Hough taught it to Dickey while coaching with the Texas Rangers.
# See also.
- List of knuckleball pitchers
- List of Major League Baseball all-time saves leaders
- List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders
- List of M... | 37,930 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
J. Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School... | 37,931 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
by chauffeur to William Penn Charter School, and in high school joined the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia and spent afternoons at the electronics laboratory of television inventor Philo Farnsworth in Chestnut Hill. He placed second in the country on the math portion of the College Board examination.
... | 37,932 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
speed and precision of the Moore School's differential analyzer, and in 1941 assisted in teaching a summer course in electronics under the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT) offered through the Moore School by the United States Department of War.
# Development of ENIAC.
Dr. Jo... | 37,933 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943, was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others. A contract was awarded for Moore School's construction of the proposed computi... | 37,934 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
adopted a new patent policy to protect the intellectual purity of the research it sponsored, which would have required Eckert and Mauchly to assign all their patents to the University had they stayed beyond March.
Eckert and Mauchly's agreement with the University of Pennsylvania was that Eckert and ... | 37,935 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
of this machine, which was used from August 1950, was that data was stored on magnetic tape. The Electronic Control Company soon became the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and it received an order from the National Bureau of Standards to build the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). He was awa... | 37,936 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
career.
Eckert remained with Remington Rand and became an executive within the company. He continued with Remington Rand as it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys in 1986. In 1989, Eckert retired from Unisys but continued to act as a consultant for the company. He died of leukemia ... | 37,937 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
Neumann arrived on the scene in 1944–1945. Eckert's contention that von Neumann improperly took credit for devising the stored program computer architecture was supported by Jean Bartik, one of the original ENIAC programmers. Many others in the field, however, believe that the concept of a stored prog... | 37,938 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
difficulties in securing patent rights for the ENIAC and the problems posed by the circulation of John von Neumann's 1945 First Draft of the Report on EDVAC, which placed the ENIAC inventions in the public domain. Interview by Nancy Stern, October 28, 1977.
- Oral history interview with Carl Chambers... | 37,939 |
74685 | J. Presper Eckert | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Presper%20Eckert | J. Presper Eckert
the personalities and working relationships of Mauchly and Eckert.
- A Tribute to Dr. J. Presper Eckert Co-Inventor of ENIAC. 2000 Daniel F. McGrath Jr.
- ENIAC museum at the University of Pennsylvania
- Q&A: A lost interview with ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert
- 1989 interview of Eckert by A... | 37,940 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
Telemachus
Telemachus ( ; Ancient Greek: Τηλέμαχος "Tēlemakhos", literally "far-fighter") is a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's "Odyssey". The first four books of the "Odyssey" focus on Telemachus's journeys in search of news about his father, w... | 37,941 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant. At the outset of Telemachus' journey, Odysseus had been absent from his home at Ithaca for twenty years due to the Trojan War and the intervention of Poseidon. During his absence, Odysseus' house has been occupied by hordes of su... | 37,942 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
stories of his father's exploits at Troy.
Telemachus focuses on his father's return to Ithaca in Book XV. He visits Eumaeus, the swineherd, who happens to be hosting a disguised Odysseus. After Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus due to Athena's advice, the two men plan the downfall of the suitors. Telem... | 37,943 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
before he can finish his attempt. Following the suitors' failure at this task, Odysseus reveals himself and he and Telemachus bring swift and bloody death to the suitors.
# "Telegony".
The "Telegony" was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the "Odyssey".... | 37,944 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
his father went to Troy, and in his absence of nearly twenty years he grew up to manhood. After the gods in council had determined that Odysseus should return home from the island of Ogygia, Athena, assuming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Taphians, went to Ithaca, and advised Telemachus to eject the t... | 37,945 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
received him, and communicated to him the prophecy of Proteus concerning Odysseus (Hom. Od. i.–iv.).From Sparta Telemachus returned home; and on his arrival there, he found his father, with the swineherd Eumaeus. But as Athena had metamorphosed him into a beggar, Telemachus did not recognise his father until... | 37,946 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing (Hygin. Fab. 95; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 81; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 384; Aelian, V. H. xiii. 12.).According to some accounts, Telemachus became the father of Perseptolis either by Polycaste, the daughter of Nestor, or by Nausicaa, the daughter of Alc... | 37,947 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
had a daughter called Roma, who married Aeneas (Serv. ad Aen. i. 273.).One account states that Odysseus, in consequence of a prophecy that his son was dangerous to him, sent him away from Ithaca. Servius (ad Aen. x. 167) makes Telemachus the founder of the town of Clusium in Etruria.
# Later classical autho... | 37,948 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
or Ptoliporthus.
# Other appearances.
Telemachus is the subject of François Fénelon's "The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses" (1699), a scathing attack on the monarchy of France.
Telemachus was the subject of numerous operas throughout the eighteenth century, most based on Fénelon's version. Among ... | 37,949 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
Sor's "Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso" (1797).
Telemachus is one of the main characters in "Ulysses", a 1706 play by Nicholas Rowe.
Telemachus is featured in the 1833 poem (published in 1842) "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
In the 1922 novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus is generally regar... | 37,950 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
appears as the son of Ulysses in the 1981 French-Japanese animated television series "Ulysses 31".
Telemachus is a major character in Madeline Miller's novel "Circe". He eventually marries and has children with Circe.
Telemachus is the title of a poem by American poet Ocean Vuong
"Telemachus Sneezed" is t... | 37,951 |
74673 | Telemachus | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Telemachus | Telemachus
He eventually marries and has children with Circe.
Telemachus is the title of a poem by American poet Ocean Vuong
"Telemachus Sneezed" is the name of a fictional novel in "The Illuminatus! Trilogy". and is a pun on the title of Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged".
# References.
- Brann, Eva, "Homeric Mome... | 37,952 |
74688 | Ruda Śląska | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruda%20Śląska | Ruda Śląska
Ruda Śląska
Ruda Śląska (; ) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is a district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river (tributary of the Oder).
It has been part of the Siles... | 37,953 |
74688 | Ruda Śląska | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruda%20Śląska | Ruda Śląska
is known to have existed at the location of the present day city center in 1243. The city name appears to indicate the awareness and perhaps exploitation of ores from early times.
The area underwent rapid industrialization (coal, steel, zinc) in the 19th and the beginning of 20th century. However, it remai... | 37,954 |
74688 | Ruda Śląska | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruda%20Śląska | Ruda Śląska
2007, Ruda Śląska has been a member of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, the largest legally recognized urban area in Poland.
# Transport and infrastructure.
Significant roadways are Highway A4 and the Drogowa Trasa Średnicowa. There are several small railway stations, mainly on the line Katowice-Gli... | 37,955 |
74688 | Ruda Śląska | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruda%20Śląska | Ruda Śląska
Ekstraklasa Women's Handball League: Polish Cup winner 2004; 6th place in 2003/2004 season.
Rugby Club IGLOO Ruda Śląska – men's rugby team playing in Polish Ekstraliga Rugby Seven's
# Subdivisions.
The city of Ruda Śląska is divided into the following subdivisions:
# Notable people.
- Marcin Baszczyns... | 37,956 |
74688 | Ruda Śląska | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruda%20Śląska | Ruda Śląska
- Karl Godulla (1781–1848), German industrialist
- Otylia Jędrzejczak (born 1983), Polish Olympic gold medalist and world record-holder in swimming
- Kasia Moś (born 1987), Polish singer and songwriter, she represented Poland At the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
- Ernest Pohl (1932–1995), Polish footballe... | 37,957 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
A Terrible Revenge
A Terrible Revenge, subtitled "The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950" is a book written by Cuban-born American lawyer Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, former research fellow at MPG in Heidelberg, Germany. The work is based on a collection of testimonials from German... | 37,958 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
article IX on the provisional post-war borders). The book attempts to describe the crimes committed against the German nation by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia at the end of World War II – as perceived by the expellees themselves and settlers brought in "Heim ins Rei... | 37,959 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
story of refugees from the former Eastern parts of Germany (Silesia, East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg), as well as the fate of German minorities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
In the book, de Zayas claims that approximately two million Germans ... | 37,960 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
introduction to the subject was published in German as "Anmerkungen zur Vertreibung der Deutschen aus dem Osten" (4 editions during 1986-1996, Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, ), first printed in English under the title of "The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace" (St. Martin's Press, New York... | 37,961 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
It was positively reviewed in Germany by Andreas Hillgruber in the Historische Zeitschrift and Gotthold Rhode in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".
The 2006 English edition was expanded by about 20%. It contains additional information from interviews with the children of the displaced, German exp... | 37,962 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
German population which had settled in the early 13th century in large parts of what is nowadays Eastern Europe." "Netherlands International Law Review" 1986, pp. 430–431.
"This is the story of the ethnic Germans who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some two million died and fi... | 37,963 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
University, argues that de Zayas over-emphasizes the role of the Bund der Vertriebenen (non-governmental association representing the expellees) and its property and territorial claims. It has been noted that no West-East migration occurred when this possibility arose after the unification of the Ger... | 37,964 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
with Palgrave/Macmillan takes some of these considerations into account. In the introduction the author notes that a "Terrible Revenge" is a popularized version of his longer monograph "Nemesis at Potsdam" (1-3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003). See also review of th... | 37,965 |
74707 | A Terrible Revenge | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Terrible%20Revenge | A Terrible Revenge
nge" is a popularized version of his longer monograph "Nemesis at Potsdam" (1-3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003). See also review of the Future of Freedom Foundation.
Other reviews have criticized both de Zayas and Brandes reversely. According to Eagle Glassheim, B... | 37,966 |
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Drusilla of Mauretania the Elder
Drusilla of Mauretania (Greek: Δρουσίλλη) may be the Drusilla mentioned by Tacitus as a granddaughter of Antonius and Cleopatra. If so, she would have been a princess of Mauretania, the youngest child of queen Cleopatra Selene II and king Juba II and a ... | 37,967 |
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Ptolemaic Greek queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt from her marriage to Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. Drusilla was of Berber, Greek and Roman ancestry.
Drusilla and her brother were the only children of African king Juba II of Numidia and Cleopatra Selene II, who was the daughter of the famous... | 37,968 |
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ger, Roman Empress Valeria Messalina and Roman Emperor Nero.
# Life.
Drusilla was named in honor of the Roman Empress Livia Drusilla or her late son the Roman General Nero Claudius Drusus. Drusilla was most probably born in Caesaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania (modern Ch... | 37,969 |
74686 | Margaret Avison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Avison | Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize. According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica", "Her work has been praised for the beauty of its language and images."
# Early li... | 37,970 |
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of Toronto, entering in 1936 and getting her B.A. in 1940 (and returning to pick up her M.A. in 1965). Before she finished her B.A. she was a published poet; the poem "Gatineau" appeared in the Canadian Poetry Magazine in 1939. Additionally, she began publishing poetry in the college magazine, Acta Vict... | 37,971 |
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time, and chose paying jobs which left her time to write. She didn't apply for a Canada Council grant.
In 1951 Avison's junior high school textbook, "History of Ontario", was published.
As mentioned previously, Avison's poem "Gatineau" appeared in "Canadian Poetry Magazine" in 1939. In 1943, anthologi... | 37,972 |
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book of poetry, "Winter Sun." It was published in 1960 and won the Governor General's Award.
Avison was moved by the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and translated eight Hungarian poems that then appeared in "The Plough and The Pen" - this brought recognition to various twentieth century Hungarian poets. Av... | 37,973 |
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at Presbyterian mission named Evangel Hall during this time. Avison was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario for eight months in 1973. From 1973 to 1978 she worked in the archives division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In 1978 she joined Toronto's Mustard Seed Missi... | 37,974 |
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and 'humility' of her poetry -- which they described as 'some of the most humane, sweet and profound poetry of our time.'"
Avison was honoured for her contributions to Canadian literature by various honourary degrees: Acadia University (1983), York University (1985), and Victoria University (1988).
Ma... | 37,975 |
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who revealed the progress of an interior spiritual journey in her three successive volumes of poetry," referring to her first three books, "Winter Sun", "The Dumbfounding", and "sunblue".
With "Winter Sun", "Avison established herself as a difficult and introspective poet given to private images and su... | 37,976 |
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at the familiar in new and thought-provoking ways." "One of Avison's principal concerns in "Winter Sun" is perception, and she consistently emphasizes looking at the familiar in new and thought-provoking ways. Ernest H. Redekop has argued that 'there is a profound sense in Avison's poems that the world ... | 37,977 |
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"Winter Sun", but here the poet is no longer searching for meaning. "Truth" has been identified as the presence of a personal, loving, and forgiving God."
"This was further developed in "sunblue" (1978), a combination of social concern and moral values fused by religious conviction and a continuing res... | 37,978 |
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work has been characterized as 'intellectual'" and 'deliberate'; her use of word-play, disconcerting shifts in viewpoint, complex metaphors, and literary allusions make her poetry a challenge to read." "The thing with her poetry is that you must grapple with it, it just does not open up. Its rewards com... | 37,979 |
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poetry goes beyond that of simple religious proselytizing."
Reviewing Avison's posthumous collection, "Listening: Last Poems" (2007), poet Judith Fitzgerald wrote of her: "An original, an authentic visionary ... Avison praises Creation in all its transplendent awesome/awful mutations."
The University ... | 37,980 |
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Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1960.
- "The Dumbfounding". New York: Norton, 1966.
- "The Cosmic Chef Glee & Perloo Memorial Society under the direction of Captain Poetry presents an evening of concrete" (poems by Margaret Avison [and others] edited by B.P. Nichol.); courtesy Oberon Cement Works. Ottawa: Ober... | 37,981 |
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Carrot". London, ON: Brick Books, 2002. (winner of the 2003 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
- "Always Now: The Collected Poems". (in three volumes) Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2003–2005.
- "Momentary Dark". Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
- "Listening: The Last Poems of Margaret Avison". Toronto... | 37,982 |
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Grade VII] [illustrations by Selwyn Dewdney]. Toronto : W. J. Gage, 1951.
- "The research compendium; review and abstracts of graduate research", 1942-1962. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press [c1964]
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# Works on Margaret Avison.
## Books.
- Kent, David, ed. "Lighting Up The Terrain: The P... | 37,983 |
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en Literature Canadienne (SCL), 6.1 (1981): 82-132.
- Bowen, Deborah. "Phoenix from the Ashes: Lorna Crozier and Margaret Avison in Contemporary Mourning." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 40 (1997): 46-57.
- Calverley, Margaret. "'Service Is Joy': Margaret Avison's Sonnet Sequence in Win... | 37,984 |
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of Verse."The Literary Criterion. 16.1 (1981): 42-45.
- Jones, Lawrence M. "A Core of Brilliance: Margaret Avison's Achievement." Canadian Literature. 38 (1968): 50-57.
- Kent, David A. "Wholehearted Poetry; Halfhearted Criticism." Essays on Canadian Writing. 44 (1991): 67-78.
- Mazoff, David. "Throu... | 37,985 |
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Jail-Break in Avison." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 25 (1989): 21-37.
- Redekop, Ernest H. "Sun/Son Light/Light: Avison's Elemental Sunblue." Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 7 (1980): 21-37.
- Somerville, Christine. "The Shadow of Death: Margaret Avison's 'Just Left or T... | 37,986 |
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r of Donald Stephens. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1992: 55-59.
- Sullivan, R. "The Territory of Conscience: The Poetry of Margaret Avison." Literary Half-Yearly." 32.1 (1991): 43-55.
- Zezulka, J. M. "Refusing the Sweet Surrender: Margaret Avison's 'Dispersed Titles'" Canadian Poetry 1 (1977): 44-53.
- Zichy... | 37,987 |
74664 | Cave of the Patriarchs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cave%20of%20the%20Patriarchs | Cave of the Patriarchs
Cave of the Patriarchs
The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews as the Cave of Machpelah (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, " ", trans. "cave of the double tombs" or "cave of the double caves") and to Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham (, ""), is a series of caves located in the h... | 37,988 |
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in the 12th century, but it was taken back by Saladin 1188 and reconverted into a mosque. Israel took control of the site in 1967, dividing the structure into a synagogue and a mosque. In 1994, the Hebron massacre occurred in which a Jewish settler killed 29 Muslims praying in the mosque.
The Ar... | 37,989 |
74664 | Cave of the Patriarchs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cave%20of%20the%20Patriarchs | Cave of the Patriarchs
"Machpelah" means "doubled", "multiplied" or "twofold" and "Me'arat" means "cave" so a literal translation would simply be "the double cave". The name could refer to the layout of the cave which is thought to consist of two or more connected chambers. This hypothesis is discussed in the tractate ... | 37,990 |
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in than the other. And one said: It consists of a room and a second story above it.
The Gemara asks: Granted, this is understandable according to the one who said the cave consists of one room above the other, as that is the meaning of Machpelah, double. However, according to the one who said it... | 37,991 |
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in the sense that it is doubled with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, who are buried there in pairs. This is similar to the homiletic interpretation of the alternative name for Hebron mentioned in the Torah: "Mamre of Kiryat Ha'Arba, which is Hebron" (Genesis 35:27). Rabbi Yitzḥak said: The city is... | 37,992 |
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of Machpelah", near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite." The question over the right interpretation of "Machpelah" has been discussed extensively in various Biblical commentaries.
# Biblical origin.
According to , Abraham's wife ... | 37,993 |
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The Hittites flatter Abraham, call him a Lord and mighty prince, and say that he can bury his dead in any of their tombs. Abraham doesn't take them up on their offer and instead asks them to contact Ephron the Hittite, the son of Zohar, who lives in Mamre and owns the cave of Machpelah which he i... | 37,994 |
74664 | Cave of the Patriarchs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cave%20of%20the%20Patriarchs | Cave of the Patriarchs
He then proceeded to bury his dead wife Sarah there.
The burial of Sarah is the first account of a burial in the Bible, and Abraham's purchase of Machpelah is the first commercial transaction mentioned.
The next burial in the cave is that of Abraham himself, who at the age of 175 years was buri... | 37,995 |
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in Jacob's final words to the children of Israel. Jacob himself died at the age of 147 years.
In the final chapter of Genesis, Joseph had his physicians embalm his father Jacob, before they removed him from Egypt to be buried in the cave of the field of Machpelah. When Joseph died in the last ve... | 37,996 |
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fully surviving Herodian structure from the period of Hellenistic Judaism. Herod's building, with 6-foot-thick stone walls made from stones that were at least tall and sometimes reach a length of , did not have a roof. Archæologists are not certain where the original entrance to the enclosure was... | 37,997 |
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accounts are from the 4th century. The Piacenza Pilgrim (c.570) noted in his pilgrimage account that Jews and Christians shared possession of the site.
## Arab period.
In 614, the Sasanid Persians conquered the area and destroyed the castle, leaving only ruins; but in 637, the area came under t... | 37,998 |
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building known as the "qal'ah" (قلعة i.e. "castle") was also constructed near the middle of the southwestern side. Its purpose is unknown but one historic account claims that it marked the spot where Joseph was buried (see Joseph's tomb), the area having been excavated by a Muslim caliph, under t... | 37,999 |
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