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3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
the Lash", "One Hundred Years Ago", "The Lady Outlaw" and "The Assigned Servant", all released in 1911. Few convict films were made after 1930; even the Australian New Wave of the 1970s, with its emphasis on Australia's colonial past, largely avoided the convict era in favour of nostalgic period p... | 40,200 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
of the Tolpuddle Martyrs to Australia.
# Notable convicts transported to Australia.
- Esther Abrahams – British Jew, who was one of the Jewish convicts (about 1,000 in all) and common law wife of a leader of the Rum Rebellion.
- Samuel Barsby – first convict to be flogged
- Joseph Backler – tr... | 40,201 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
Mary Bryant – famous escapee
- William Buckley – famously escaped and lived with Aboriginal people for many years
- John Cadman – had been a publican, as a convict became Superintendent of Boats in Sydney; Cadmans Cottage is a cottage granted to him.
- Martin Cash – Famous escapee and bushrange... | 40,202 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
of the largest landowners in central Perth.
- Daniel Cooper – successful merchant.
- William Cuffay (convict and tailor) – Black London Chartist leader who became an important workers' rights leader in Hobart.
- John Davies – co-founded "The Mercury" newspaper.
- Margaret Dawson – First Fleete... | 40,203 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
– founded Sydney Grammar School.
- William Hutchinson – public servant and pastoralist.
- John Irving – doctor transported on First Fleet, was the first convict to receive an absolute pardon.
- Mark Jeffrey – wrote famous autobiography
- Jørgen Jørgensen – eccentric Danish adventurer influence... | 40,204 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
merchant, endowed Sydney Grammar School.
- Simeon Lord – pioneer merchant and magistrate in Australia
- Nathaniel Lucas – one of the first convicts on Norfolk Island, where he became Master carpenter, later farmed successfully, built windmills, and was Superintendent of carpenters in Sydney.
- ... | 40,205 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
Izod O'Doherty – Medical student, Young Irelander who was transported for treason.
- Robert Palin – once in Australia, committed further crimes, and managed to be executed for a non-capital offence
- Alexander Pearce – cannibal escapee
- Joseph Potaskie – first Pole to come to Australia.
- Wil... | 40,206 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
Robert Sidaway – opened Australia's first theatre"
- James Squire – English Romanichal (Romany) – First Fleet convict and Australia's first brewer and cultivator of hops.
- Joseph Sullivan – sentenced to fourteen years transportation for stealing, then killed for murdering his master and the oth... | 40,207 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
length autobiography and dictionary.
- Mary Wade – Youngest female convict transported to Australia (11 years of age) who had 21 children and at the time of her death had over 300 living descendants.
- William Westwood – bushranger and leader of the 1846 Cooking Pot Uprising
- Joseph Wild – exp... | 40,208 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
on the First Fleet
- Port Arthur, Tasmania
- Transport Board (Royal Navy)
- Unfree labour
# References.
## Sources.
- Alan Frost, "Botany Bay: The Real Story," Collingwood, Black Inc, 2011,
- Alexander, Alison. Editor. "The Companion to Tasmanian History". Hobart, 2005.
- Barnard, Simon, "... | 40,209 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
Judge's Reports on Criminals, 1783 to 1830": HO (Home Office) 47, volumes 304 & 305, List and Index Society, The National Archives, Kew, England, TW9 4DU
- Gillen, Mollie, "The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet", Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1989.
- Go... | 40,210 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
"An Economic History of Australia", Georgian House 1930.
- John West, "History of Tasmania", 1852.
# External links.
- Searchable database of 123,000+ British Convicts sent to Australia - GenDatabase.com
- Family History Convicts Research Guide – State Library of New South Wales
- Convict lif... | 40,211 |
3808294 | Convicts in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convicts%20in%20Australia | Convicts in Australia
ternal links.
- Searchable database of 123,000+ British Convicts sent to Australia - GenDatabase.com
- Family History Convicts Research Guide – State Library of New South Wales
- Convict life – State Library of New South Wales
- Australian Convict Transportation Registers
- The National Archi... | 40,212 |
3808624 | Frank M. Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20M.%20Mayo | Frank M. Mayo
Frank M. Mayo
Frank Maguire Mayo (1839–1896) was an American actor and comedian, born in Boston, Massachusetts.
He moved to San Francisco where at seventeen years of age he began his career and within a few years was appearing with the young Edwin Booth. He won applause in some classic roles, but his fi... | 40,213 |
3808624 | Frank M. Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank%20M.%20Mayo | Frank M. Mayo
s of age he began his career and within a few years was appearing with the young Edwin Booth. He won applause in some classic roles, but his first great success was as Badger in "The Streets of New York" which he appeared in Boston in August 1865. In 1872 he brought out "Davy Crockett", a backwoods charac... | 40,214 |
3808605 | Ispra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ispra | Ispra
Ispra
Ispra is a "comune" and small town on the eastern coast of Lake Maggiore, in the province of Varese (Lombardy, northern Italy).
# Toponymy.
Attested by the name "Ispira" (712), "Ispira" (XIV). Appears as "Ispratium" in Aegidius Tschudi's "Beschreibung Galliae Comatae". According to Gaudenzio Merula the o... | 40,215 |
3808605 | Ispra | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ispra | Ispra
Commission (EC) are located there, including the Institute for the Protection and the Security of the Citizen (IPSC), the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) and the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP), as well as the Ispra site Directorate (IS).
Locally, the research establishment... | 40,216 |
3808498 | Central Lowlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central%20Lowlands | Central Lowlands
Central Lowlands
The Central Lowlands or Midland Valley is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland. It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south. The Central Lowlands are one of the three... | 40,217 |
3808498 | Central Lowlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central%20Lowlands | Central Lowlands
bearing rocks that fueled Scotland's industrial revolution are to be found. This area has also experienced intense volcanism, Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh being the remnant of a once much larger volcano active in the Carboniferous period some 300 million years ago. This area is relatively low-lying, alth... | 40,218 |
3808498 | Central Lowlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central%20Lowlands | Central Lowlands
Stonehaven in the north east. The fault was active during the Caledonian orogeny, a plate tectonic collision which took place from Mid Ordovician to Mid Devonian periods (520 to 400 million years ago), during the closure of the Iapetus Ocean. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major r... | 40,219 |
3808498 | Central Lowlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central%20Lowlands | Central Lowlands
e coal and iron have led to the Central Lowlands being much more densely populated than the rest of Scotland. The major cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth and Dundee all lie in the Central Lowlands, and over half of Scotland's population lives in this region.
# See also.
- Central Scotland... | 40,220 |
3808625 | Steel Aréna | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steel%20Aréna | Steel Aréna
Steel Aréna
Steel Aréna – Košický štadión L. Trojáka (English: "Steel Arena – Ladislav Troják Stadium in Košice") is the home arena of the ice hockey club HC Košice. Its capacity is 8,343
The arena opened on February 24, 2006, and was named in honor of the general sponsor of the club, U. S. Steel Košice (... | 40,221 |
3808625 | Steel Aréna | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steel%20Aréna | Steel Aréna
st Slovak to win the World Championship with the Czechoslovakian national team.
# Notable events.
## Sport.
An overview of some sport events:
- 2007
- 2007 The nine-pin bowling World Championships
- 2008
- 2008 European Junior Wrestling Championships
- 2009
- 2009 World Championship in Bodybuilding... | 40,222 |
3808604 | Hana Greenfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hana%20Greenfield | Hana Greenfield
Hana Greenfield
Hana Greenfield ("née" Lustigová; 3 November 1926 – 27 January 2014) was born in Kolín, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.
She is the author of "Fragments of Memory" (Gefen Publishing House, c. 1998, re... | 40,223 |
3808604 | Hana Greenfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hana%20Greenfield | Hana Greenfield
children" was first published in England at the 1988 Oxford University conference "Remembering for the Future".
Greenfield was a member of the board of the Terezin Ghetto Museum, where her program for teaching Czech children tolerance, and educating them about the Holocaust, serves thousands of youth a... | 40,224 |
3808604 | Hana Greenfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hana%20Greenfield | Hana Greenfield
er of Gefen Publishing House. Greenfield is also the founder of the Hana Greenfield Fund.
Following her liberation from Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, Greenfield moved to London, soon decided to make aliyah to Israel, and has resided there with her family until her death. Hana died on January 27 in Te... | 40,225 |
3808653 | Reay Road railway station | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reay%20Road%20railway%20station | Reay Road railway station
Reay Road railway station
Reay Road (station code: RRD) is a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. The station is a Grade-I heritage structure. The other 4 stations on Mumbai's heritage list include Byculla, Bandra, CST and Churchgate. Reay Road was named after L... | 40,226 |
3808653 | Reay Road railway station | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reay%20Road%20railway%20station | Reay Road railway station
ntinue the journey to Bombay (now Mumbai).
The letters GIPR can be seen on either side of the station. GIPR is the abbreviation for Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the first rail line in India.
The tracks have been extended for 12 car local trains. The track passes under a road connecting bo... | 40,227 |
3808651 | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All%20That%20Jazz%20(Ella%20Fitzgerald%20album) | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album)
All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album)
All That Jazz was the last studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
"All That Jazz" eschewed a tendency by Fitzgerald in past decades to record popular and commercial songs of the day, and instead concentrated on jazz standar... | 40,228 |
3808651 | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All%20That%20Jazz%20(Ella%20Fitzgerald%20album) | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album)
1. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Milton Adolphus, Gus Kahn) – 5:00
- 2. "My Last Affair" (Haven Johnson) – 4:34
- 3. "Baby, Don't You Quit Now" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Rowles) – 5:09
- 4. "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) – 5:10
- 5. "Jersey Bounce" (Tiny Bradshaw,... | 40,229 |
3808651 | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All%20That%20Jazz%20(Ella%20Fitzgerald%20album) | All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album)
Called Love" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts) – 4:49
- 8. "All That Jazz" (Benny Carter, Al Stillman) – 4:04
- 9. "Just When We're Falling in Love" (Robbins' Nest) (Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Lucky Thompson) – 5:24
- 10. "Good Morning Heartache" (Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene ... | 40,230 |
3808643 | Dockyard Road railway station | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dockyard%20Road%20railway%20station | Dockyard Road railway station
Dockyard Road railway station
Dockyard Road (station code: DKRD) is a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. It is the stop closest to the Mazagon Dock Limited.
This station gives access to Mazagaon area. There is a sales tax office within a ten-minute walk f... | 40,231 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
Amory Dwight Mayo
Amory Dwight Mayo (31 January 1823 - 8 April 1907) was a Unitarian clergyman and educator.
# Biography.
Mayo was born in Warwick, Massachusetts, the son of Amory Mayo and Sophronia Cobb. He enrolled at Amherst College in 1843. During his freshman year, illness forced him to leave ... | 40,232 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
church attendance. Mayo's health, however, was unsteady, sometimes preventing him from delivering church services. Nevertheless, many of his sermons were collected in his works "The Balance; or, Moral Arguments for Universalism" (1847) and "Graces and Powers of the Christian Life" (1853). These books ... | 40,233 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
Mayo resigned his pastoral duties at Gloucester, responding to an invitation to become pastor of the Independent Christian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served for the next two years. This appointment was less fruitful than he expected, and in 1856 he relocated to Albany, New York, where he mini... | 40,234 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
1863, while residing in Cincinnati, he accepted a position as nonresident professor of administration and church polity at Meadville Theological School (Pa.), a position he maintained for the next 35 years.
Initially, the Meadville Seminary faculty consisted of three resident and five nonresident ins... | 40,235 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
1880, when he resigned from active ministerial duties and devoted more time to writing and lecturing.
## Educator.
In 1880 Mayo's interests became more directed toward educational pursuits. He had been interested in education since his ministerial work in Albany and had served on both the Cincinnati... | 40,236 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
Southern education. Traveling an estimated 200,000 miles, he lectured, delivered sermons, and consulted numerous southern educators. Since most of his lecturing and counseling were provided gratis, Mayo was forced at first to depend on an annual grant from the American Unitarian Association and later ... | 40,237 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
commissioner of education, Mayo dedicated himself to writing the history of American common schools. The work was uncompleted at his death.
Between 1893 and his death, Mayo was listed as lecturer of education at Berea College, Kentucky. His lectures on various aspects of southern educational problems... | 40,238 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
and books, besides providing spiritual enrichment, were instructive in moral and ethical behavior. Later in life, as an educational researcher and promoter, he conducted a 26-year campaign of lecturing, interviewing, visiting, preaching, and writing in behalf of public schooling for both races within ... | 40,239 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
in the Recent Educational Movement in the South" (1892)
# References.
- Francis A. Christie, "Makers of the Meadville Theological School, 1844-1894" (1927)
- Richard Eddy, "Universalism in Gloucester, Massachusetts" (1892), a brief yet important source relating to Mayo's years as pastor of the Glou... | 40,240 |
3808626 | Amory Dwight Mayo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amory%20Dwight%20Mayo | Amory Dwight Mayo
t source relating to Mayo's years as pastor of the Gloucester Universalist Church.
- The Frederick Huidekoper Papers, which contain letters and journals about Mayo and the Meadville Theological School, are located at the Crawford County Historical Society (Meadville, Pennsylvania) and the Meadville-L... | 40,241 |
3808663 | Cynan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cynan | Cynan
Cynan
Cynan (also spelled Conan or Kenan) is a Welsh masculine given name. It may refer to:
- Cynan, the bardic name of Albert Evans-Jones (1895–1970), Welsh poet and dramatist
- Cynan ab Iago (11th century), prince of Gwynedd and father of Gruffydd ap Cynan
- Cynan ab Owain Gwynedd (fl. 1169–1174), Lord of M... | 40,242 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Rebecca Kirshner is a writer and producer for American television. Her writing credits include "Freaks and Geeks", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Gilmore Girls". She was the executive producer and showrunner of "90210" for the second and third season. According to a CBS re... | 40,243 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
to her work in television, Kirshner writes children's stories and is a visual artist. In 2016, her art show "How to Make Love to a Cactus" was exhibited in Los Angeles and Yucca Valley.
She attended Harvard University where she was on the Harvard Lampoon as an editor and artist. She is the daught... | 40,244 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Thibaut Mosneron Dupin. She has two children.
# Television work.
## Freaks and Geeks.
- "The Diary" (First Aired: Monday January 31, 2000)
## Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- "Out of My Mind" (First Aired: Tuesday October 17, 2000)
- "Listening to Fear" (First Aired: Tuesday November 28, 2000)
-... | 40,245 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
November 16, 2004)
- "How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?" (First Aired: Tuesday May 3, 2005)
- "Always a Godmother, Never a God" (First Aired: Tuesday October 4, 2005)
- "Bridesmaid Revisited" (First Aired: Tuesday February 28, 2006)
- "That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee" (First Aired: ... | 40,246 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Producer (from episode "Secrets and Lies")
Writer:
- "Okaeri, Donna!" (First Aired: Tuesday April 14, 2009)
- "Between a Sign and a Hard Place" (First Aired: Tuesday April 21, 2009)
- "One Party Can Ruin Your Whole Summer" (First Aired: Tuesday May 19, 2009)
- "To New Beginnings" (First Aired... | 40,247 |
3808662 | Rebecca Rand Kirshner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebecca%20Rand%20Kirshner | Rebecca Rand Kirshner
n Your Whole Summer" (First Aired: Tuesday May 19, 2009)
- "To New Beginnings" (First Aired: Tuesday September 8, 2009)
- "Women's Intuition" (First Aired: Tuesday November 3, 2009)
- "And Away They Go" (First Aired: Tuesday December 1, 2009)
- "Girl Fight" (First Aired: Tuesday March 16, 2010... | 40,248 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
Conservation International
Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its goal is to protect nature as a source of food, fresh water, livelihoods and a stable climate.
CI's work focuses on science, policy, and pa... | 40,249 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
the benefit of people.
In 1989, CI formally committed to the protection of biodiversity hotspots, ultimately identifying 36 such hotspots around the world and contributing to their protection. The model of protecting hotspots became a key way for organizations to do conservation work.
As of... | 40,250 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
named executive vice president. Peter Seligmann will remain Chairman of the Board.
## Growth and mission shift.
In the subsequent two decades, CI expanded its work, with a stronger focus on science, corporate partnership, conservation funding, indigenous peoples, government, and marine cons... | 40,251 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
watchdog organizations, with an A rating from Charity Watch. Charity Navigator awarded CI a score of 92.28 out of 100 for accountability and transparency.
# Approach to conservation.
The foundation of CI's work is "science, partnership and field demonstration." The organization has scientis... | 40,252 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
decisions around the world. CI supported 23 Pacific Island nations and territories in the formation of the Pacific Oceanscape, a framework to conserve and sustainably manage over 15 million square miles of sea in the South Pacific. In addition to the sustainable management of ocean resources,... | 40,253 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
and America's economic and national security interests."
A few years after its founding, CI began working with McDonald's to implement sustainable agriculture and conservation projects in Central America. The organization expanded its commitment to working with the business sector in 2000, w... | 40,254 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
the organization had attracted $6 million for marine conservation in Papua New Guinea, but that the funds were used for "little more than plush offices and first class travel." CI has touted its operations in Papua New Guinea, claiming that they have contributed to new scientific discoveries ... | 40,255 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
a fee, and sponsorship packages where the company could potentially invest money in return for being associated with conservation activities. Conservation International agreed to help the company find an "endangered species mascot". Film footage shows the Conservation International employee s... | 40,256 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
reported that an indigenous Bushman tribe in Botswana was threatened with eviction from their ancestral land in order to create a wildlife corridor known as the Western Kgalagadi Conservation Corridor. A Botswana government representative denied this. A May press release from CI said, "Contra... | 40,257 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
the Executive Committee: Wes Bush
- Vice Chair: Harrison Ford
# Bibliography.
- "" ("Discover The Rainforest", Vol. 1) (1991), introduction by Mike Roberts and Russell Mittermeier, written by Gad Meiron and Randall Stone, illustrated by Donna Reynolds and Tim Racer
- "" ("Discover The Rai... | 40,258 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
by Mike Roberts and Russell Mittermeier, written by Gad Meiron and Randall Stone, illustrated by Donna Reynolds and Tim Racer
# External links.
- Conservation International - Official site
- Global Symposium 2006 Madagascar
- Defying Ocean's End, A Conservation International led Agenda fo... | 40,259 |
3808633 | Conservation International | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conservation%20International | Conservation International
and Russell Mittermeier, written by Gad Meiron and Randall Stone, illustrated by Donna Reynolds and Tim Racer
# External links.
- Conservation International - Official site
- Global Symposium 2006 Madagascar
- Defying Ocean's End, A Conservation International led Agenda for Action in ocea... | 40,260 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
Japanese mon (currency)
The was the currency of Japan from the Muromachi period in 1336 until the early Meiji period in 1870. It co-circulated with the new "sen" until 1891. The Kanji for "mon" is and the character for currency was widely used in the Chinese-character cultural sphere, e.g. Chin... | 40,261 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
the new fixing officially was set for 1 ryo/yen = equal to 10.000 mon. The yen started to replace the old duodecimal denominations in 1870: in 3rd quarter of 1870, the first new coins appeared, namely 5, 10, 50 sen silver and 2, 5, 10, 20 Yen. Smaller sen coins did not appear before spring, 1873... | 40,262 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
postal rates in mon until April, 1872 (Meiji 5.2.28).
During the co-existence of the mon with the sen between 1870 and 1891, the metal content of the old currency became important. Official exchange for coins from 1871.6.27: 4 copper mon = 2 rin, 1 bronze mon = 1 rin (1 rin = 1/10th of a sen). ... | 40,263 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
a face value of 100 mon) was valued at only 8 rin (0.8 sen) in that sen period.
# History.
## "Toraisen", "Shichūsen", and "Bitasen".
Though the production of copper, silver, and gold coins had already started in the eighth century, they weren’t often used as a medium for exchange until later... | 40,264 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
coins would still enter Japan annually through Ningbo. Since the trade had begun with Japan, and they received payment in Chinese coins for Japanese goods, they stopped minting their own copper coinage until 1587. The Ashikaga shogunate imported "Kōbu Tsūhō" (洪武通寶), "Eiraku Tsūhō" (永樂通寳), and "K... | 40,265 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
it was minted at the town of Kajiki, while still using the inscription of the Hongwu Emperor of Ming China. Some "Shichūsen" would also bear the inscriptions of coins from the Song dynasty, although it was not uncommon for many coins to simply be recasts and copies of older Song and Ming dynasty... | 40,266 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
time these coins would become damaged, and this made sellers more discriminating in what coins they would accept at face value, often accepting them only at ¼ of a good quality coin. Though Chinese coins would continue to circulate in Eastern Japan, the confusion and chaos caused by the "Bitasen... | 40,267 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
"Kan'ei Tsūhō".
In 1636, the "Kan'ei Tsūhō" (Kyūjitai: 寛永通寳 ; Shinjitai: 寛永通宝) coin was introduced by the government of the Tokugawa shogunate as a means to standardise copper coins and keep up a sufficient supply of copper coinage, being the first government minted copper coin in 700 years, de... | 40,268 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
were minted for 230 years despite the fact that the Kan’ei era ended in 1643, "Kan'ei Tsūhō" coins would continue to bear the "Kan’ei" legend, even when a new denomination of the coin was introduced a century later, though they weren’t all uniform as the shogunate outsourced the mintage to regio... | 40,269 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
"Kan'ei Tsūhō" coins produced after 1688 (or “new Kan’ei” coins) tend to be more diverse in calligraphic styling, and the 4 mon denomination has waves on its reverse making it easily distinguishable from other coins.
From 1738 government authorised the manufacture of iron "Kan'ei Tsūhō" 1 mon c... | 40,270 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
huge influx of "Eiraku Tsūhō" and "Kan'ei Tsūhō" coins from Japan made the Japanese mon the "de facto" currency of the region. The large export of Japanese coins to Vietnam during this period mostly happened on Red seal ships.
From 1633 the Tokugawa government adopted the isolationist Sakoku po... | 40,271 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
to Vietnam, and from 1659 this continued with the Nagasaki trade coins which were specifically minted for foreign markets, this is why they were escribed with Song dynasty inscriptions as coins from the Song dynasty were already circulating in Southeast Asia and the populace had already become a... | 40,272 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
after it started circulating as it wasn't accepted for its nominal value.
However, in 1835 (during the Bakumatsu) the Tokugawa shogunate tried issuing a larger denomination copper coin again with the "Tenpō Tsūhō" 100 mon coin which this time only contained five and a half times the amount of c... | 40,273 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
established tri-metallic system. The concurrent circulation of 1, 4, and (heavily debased) 100 mon coins caused for a chaotic reaction from the market as did widespread circulation of forged coinage.
Another major cause for inflation was that from 1859 local Daimyō started minting their own coi... | 40,274 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
Stringing of coins.
Mon coins were holed, allowing them to be strung together on a piece of string.
In the Edo-period of Japan (1615-1868), stringed-together coins received a small discount when presented like this. E.g. for 100 Mon payment: if those 1 Mon coins were all tied in a row, discoun... | 40,275 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
currency which happened chaotically, so that the nation’s money supply expanded by 2.5 times between 1859 and 1869, leading to crumbling money values and soaring prices.
These coins were often produced with the name of the domain or province on them, the mon coins produced by domains are:
# Se... | 40,276 |
3808543 | Japanese mon (currency) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Japanese%20mon%20(currency) | Japanese mon (currency)
o crumbling money values and soaring prices.
These coins were often produced with the name of the domain or province on them, the mon coins produced by domains are:
# See also.
- Wadōkaichin
- Economy of Japan
- Japanese numismatic charm
## Currencies with the same etymology.
- Chinese we... | 40,277 |
3808658 | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilak%20Nagar%20(Mumbai) | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
Tilak Nagar (Marathi: टिळक नगर) is a residential colony in Chembur in the suburban Mumbai. There is also a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai suburban railway by this name. Named after freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak is a suburban area in Mumbai, India.
It ... | 40,278 |
3808658 | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilak%20Nagar%20(Mumbai) | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
the population of Tilak Nagar is Maharashtrians and South Indians.
# Geography.
Earlier a calm and quiet locality with ample open spaces, haphazard construction of new buildings in every open space has resulted in a congested locality with few open spaces. The colony is bounded by Shell Colony to... | 40,279 |
3808658 | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilak%20Nagar%20(Mumbai) | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
Tilak High School
# Shopping, entertainment.
Tilak Nagar provides great entertainment. Sahakar Plaza, a single screen theatre is very famous and is situated in the locality. Tilaknagar also has famous shopping malls like Shopper's Stop and also the quick service restaurant McDonald's. Periodicall... | 40,280 |
3808658 | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilak%20Nagar%20(Mumbai) | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
consisting of Maharashtrians and south Indians, many religious programmes are held there regularly, with additional audience from the nearby areas of Chembur and from other parts of the city. Tilak Nagar is famous for Ganpati decorations of its pandals.
Famous Ganesh Utsav Mandals in TilakNagar
-... | 40,281 |
3808658 | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilak%20Nagar%20(Mumbai) | Tilak Nagar (Mumbai)
Krida Mandal
- Maharashtra Aikyavardhak Mandal
# Recreation.
Tilak Nagar has 3 major playgrounds namely Sahyadri ground, Municipal ground (Lal maidan), and Om Shiv Sai ground (OSS) in New Tilak Nagar.
Cricket is the main sport played here.
# Transportation.
Autorickshaws, BEST buses and train... | 40,282 |
3808665 | 2003 in tennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003%20in%20tennis | 2003 in tennis
2003 in tennis
This page covers all the important events in the sport of tennis in 2003. Primarily, it provides the results of notable tournaments throughout the year on both the ATP and WTA Tours, the Davis Cup, and the Fed Cup.
# ATP.
- 2003 ATP calendar
## ARAG ATP World Team Championship.
- Fina... | 40,283 |
3808665 | 2003 in tennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003%20in%20tennis | 2003 in tennis
Davenport/ Lisa Raymond 6–3, 6–4
Indian Wells, United States
- Singles: Kim Clijsters d. Lindsay Davenport, 6-4, 7-5.
- Doubles: Lindsay Davenport/ Lisa Raymond d. Kim Clijsters/ Ai Sugiyama 2–6, 6–2, 7–6(5)
Miami, United States
- Singles: Serena Williams d. Jennifer Capriati, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
- Doub... | 40,284 |
3808665 | 2003 in tennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003%20in%20tennis | 2003 in tennis
Ai Sugiyama 6–3, 4–6, 6–4
Rome, Italy
- Singles: Kim Clijsters d. Amélie Mauresmo, 3-6, 7-6(7-3), 6-0.
- Doubles: Svetlana Kuznetsova/ Martina Navratilova d. Jelena Dokić/ Nadia Petrova 6–4, 5–7, 6–2
Toronto, Canada
- Singles: Justine Henin d. Lina Krasnoroutskaya, 6-1, 6-0.
- Doubles: Svetlana Kuz... | 40,285 |
3808665 | 2003 in tennis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2003%20in%20tennis | 2003 in tennis
to-Kabchi/ Angelique Widjaja 3–6, 6–1, 6–1
Moscow, Russia
- Singles: Anastasia Myskina d. Amélie Mauresmo, 6-2, 6-4.
- Doubles: Nadia Petrova/ Meghann Shaughnessy d. Anastasia Myskina/ Vera Zvonareva 6–3, 6–4
Zürich, Switzerland
- Singles: Justine Henin† d. Jelena Dokić, 6-0, 6-4.
- Doubles: Kim Cl... | 40,286 |
3808666 | TSV Havelse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TSV%20Havelse | TSV Havelse
TSV Havelse
TSV Havelse is a German association football club based in Garbsen, Lower Saxony, near Hanover.
# History.
The club was founded in 1912 as "FC Pelikan-Havelse" by a group of thirteen young men from the small village of Havelse. They took their name from the maker's brand of the first football... | 40,287 |
3808666 | TSV Havelse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TSV%20Havelse | TSV Havelse
of its existence this has been un-storied local side: the highlight for the team was a single season spent in the 2. Bundesliga Nord in 1990–91. From 1986 to 1990 the club was led by Volker Finke, who played with the team from 1969 to 1974, and then went on to become the longtime coach of SC Freiburg. Their... | 40,288 |
3808666 | TSV Havelse | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TSV%20Havelse | TSV Havelse
d by Volker Finke, who played with the team from 1969 to 1974, and then went on to become the longtime coach of SC Freiburg. Their biggest achievements in the DFB-Pokal came against the same team. In 1991 and 2012, the club eliminated 1. FC Nürnberg to advance to the third and second round respectively of t... | 40,289 |
3808669 | Doug Petrie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Petrie | Doug Petrie
Doug Petrie
Douglas "Doug" Petrie is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". He co-wrote the screenplays for the "Fantastic Four" film and "Harriet the Spy". He has also written for the television shows "An... | 40,290 |
3808669 | Doug Petrie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Petrie | Doug Petrie
over as showrunner for its second season alongside Marco Ramirez. In April 2016 Petrie and Ramirez were announced as showrunners of "The Defenders", a miniseries that crosses over "Daredevil", "Jessica Jones", "Luke Cage", and "Iron Fist".
# Early years.
Petrie earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from ... | 40,291 |
3808669 | Doug Petrie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Petrie | Doug Petrie
Girls"
- "Enemies"
- "The Initiative"
- "This Year's Girl"
- "The Yoko Factor"
- "No Place Like Home"
- "Fool for Love"
- "Checkpoint" (co-written with Jane Espenson)
- "The Weight of the World"
- "Flooded" (also director; co-written with Jane Espenson)
- "As You Were" (also director)
- "Two to G... | 40,292 |
3808669 | Doug Petrie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Petrie | Doug Petrie
- "The Initiative"
- "This Year's Girl"
- "The Yoko Factor"
- "No Place Like Home"
- "Fool for Love"
- "Checkpoint" (co-written with Jane Espenson)
- "The Weight of the World"
- "Flooded" (also director; co-written with Jane Espenson)
- "As You Were" (also director)
- "Two to Go"
- "Beneath You"
... | 40,293 |
3808674 | Plotkin bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plotkin%20bound | Plotkin bound
Plotkin bound
In the mathematics of coding theory, the Plotkin bound, named after Morris Plotkin, is a limit (or bound) on the maximum possible number of codewords in binary codes of given length "n" and given minimum distance "d".
# Statement of the bound.
A code is considered "binary" if the codeword... | 40,294 |
3808674 | Plotkin bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plotkin%20bound | Plotkin bound
The expression formula_10 represents the maximum number of possible codewords in a binary code of length formula_11 and minimum distance formula_4. The Plotkin bound places a limit on this expression.
Theorem (Plotkin bound):
i) If formula_4 is even and formula_14, then
ii) If formula_4 is odd and form... | 40,295 |
3808674 | Plotkin bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plotkin%20bound | Plotkin bound
one hand, there are formula_27 choices for formula_8 and for each such choice, there are formula_34 choices for formula_9. Since by definition formula_36 for all formula_8 and formula_9 (formula_39), it follows that
On the other hand, let formula_41 be an formula_42 matrix whose rows are the elements of ... | 40,296 |
3808674 | Plotkin bound | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plotkin%20bound | Plotkin bound
5'th column contains formula_48 ones. Each choice of a zero and a one in the same column contributes exactly formula_49 (because formula_50) to the sum formula_51 and therefore
The quantity on the right is maximized if and only if formula_53 holds for all formula_45 (at this point of the proof we ignore ... | 40,297 |
3808695 | Easthampstead Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Easthampstead%20Rural%20District | Easthampstead Rural District
Easthampstead Rural District
Easthampstead was a rural district in Berkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 as a successor to the Easthampstead rural sanitary district.
The district originally covered the civil parishes of
- Binfield
- Crow... | 40,298 |
3808695 | Easthampstead Rural District | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Easthampstead%20Rural%20District | Easthampstead Rural District
ead
- Sandhurst
- Warfield
- Winkfield
Originally a small rural district, its population was about 20,000 during the Second World War. Bracknell, in the district, was one of the first post-war new towns to be designated, and became a civil parish itself in 1955, created from parts of Bi... | 40,299 |
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