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5647543 | Doug Benson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Benson | Doug Benson
"Comedy Death-Ray" (2008)
## Albums.
- "Professional Humoredian" (2008) AST Records
- "Unbalanced Load" (2009) Comedy Central Records
- "Hypocritical Oaf" (2010) Comedy Central Records
- "Potty Mouth" (2011) Comedy Central Records
- "Smug Life" (2012) Comedy Central Records
- "Gateway Doug" (2013) AS... | 41,900 |
5647543 | Doug Benson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doug%20Benson | Doug Benson
"Heckler" (2007)
- "Super High Me" (2007)
- "Last Comic Standing" (2007)
- "How I Met Your Mother" (2008)
- "The High Road with Doug Benson" (2009)
- "The Benson Interruption" (2010)
- "The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled" (2012)
- "The Jeselnik Offensive" (2013)
- "@midnight" (2013–)
- "Doug Dynasty" (... | 41,901 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
Reid Blackburn
Reid Turner Blackburn (August 11, 1952 – May 18, 1980) was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vancouver, Washington "Columbian"—as well as "National Geographic" magazine and t... | 41,902 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
humor. His wife, Fay, concluded that he had died doing what he loved.
# Life.
Blackburn was born in 1952, the son of an engineer who possessed "a fixation on figuring out the way things worked". He loved the idea of photography, once equating it to "painting with light". He was an accomplished photogra... | 41,903 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
for several months before marrying in the summer of 1979. Blackburn enjoyed hiking and loved the outdoors.
# Assignment at Mount St. Helens.
According to coworker and photo editor Steve Small, St. Helens was Blackburn's favorite mountain. They climbed it together several times, and referred to it as "t... | 41,904 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
camping out at the volcano as a joint project to take pictures of the volcanic phenomena for "The Columbian", "National Geographic", and the United States Geological Survey.
Despite being assigned to stay on the mountain only until May 17, Blackburn opted to stay a few more days. Blackburn was situated ... | 41,905 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
was killed when a pyroclastic flow enveloped the area where he was camped out. His car was found four days later, surrounded up to the windows in ash with his body inside. The windows had been broken and ash filled the interior of the vehicle.
In early June, "National Geographic" photographer Fred Stock... | 41,906 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
houses. In addition to Blackburn, resident Harry Randall Truman, photographer Robert Landsburg, and volcanologist David Alexander Johnston were killed.
# Legacy.
After his death, friends and coworkers of Blackburn came forward to compliment his pleasant character and his talent. Friends described Black... | 41,907 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
was necessary for him to get close to a subject he was photographing." Commenting on her husband's dedication to photography, Fay Blackburn remarked, "if Reid were alive today, he'd probably be back on the front line seeking to capture the latest chapter in the mountain's evolution, in spite of the risk.... | 41,908 |
11368683 | Reid Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reid%20Blackburn | Reid Blackburn
d it, skied it." She added that he died doing what he loved.
The National Press Photographers Association awards a competitive scholarship annually in Blackburn's honor, worth $2000. In 2005 "The Columbian" offered an internship to applicants for the scholarship in memory of Blackburn.
In December 2013... | 41,909 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
Atlantic Canadian English
Atlantic Canadian English is a class of Canadian English dialects spoken in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and is notably distinct from Standard Canadian English. Atlantic Canadian English comprises: Maritime English (described in this article) and Newfoundland Eng... | 41,910 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
on a land area of approximately half a million square kilometres, with Nova Scotia being the most populous province, and its capital, Halifax, the most populous city.
# History.
Canadian English owes its very existence to important historical events, especially: the Treaty of Paris of 1763. ... | 41,911 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
to the Trans-Atlantic accent known in the United States. Students in school were not permitted to use Gaelic, upon threat of punishment for not using the King's English, and thus Gaelic fell into disuse. This accent faded in prominence following World War II, when it became stigmatized as pret... | 41,912 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
voiceless consonants like , , , , . In all Atlantic Canadian English, (the "short "a" sound") is raised before nasal consonants. This is strongly true in Nova Scotia's Sydney English specifically, which also features a merger of and (e.g. making "haggle" sound like "Hagel"). This merger, typic... | 41,913 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
recessive feature. Nova Scotia's Lunenburg English may show non-rhotic behaviour. An influence of Irish and Scottish English features is noticeable in Newfoundland English, including a fronting of ~, the cheer–chair merger, the line–loin merger, and a distinct lack of the marry–merry merger. N... | 41,914 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
of early Scottish and Irish immigration namely in the regions of Saint John, Miramichi, Cape Breton and parts of Halifax.
## Maritimes.
The phonology of Maritimer English has some unique features:
- Cot-caught merger in effect, but toward a central vowel .
- No Canadian Shift of the short ... | 41,915 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
English contains Canadian raising.
# Canadian Raising.
Canadian raising affects vowels before voiceless consonants like , , , and . Vowels before voiced consonants like , , , and are usually not raised.
Since Canadian Raising only occurs before the voiceless consonants , , , , , , Canadian ... | 41,916 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
South, too. "Some" is used as an adverb as well, especially in Nova Scotia, as in "This cake is some good!". Another example is "s'pose" or "s'poseda" for "suppose" or "supposed to". Such expressions tend to be widely used in the rural Maritimes, but are less common in urban areas.
Terminal h... | 41,917 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
speech; i.e., "Yeah" or "No", spoken while inhaling (colloquial pronunciation). This speech pattern bears no particular significance, other than its unusual nature. Competitive aspirated speech has been observed, with the intensity of aspiration increasing as conversation passes from one perso... | 41,918 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
may also pronounce "Look" as simply "Luh", but only if the word was not used as part of a bigger sentence, such as pointing in a direction and saying "luh!", otherwise the letter "k" is pronounced, "Look here!". The phrase (for eating) "get it into you" is spoken quickly and almost as one word... | 41,919 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
"shitty-arse" is, or calling someone who works for you "my Kunta Kinti". Other examples are nearly endless.
Terms of British origin are very much still a part of Maritime English, depending on dialects. "Chesterfield", "front room", "gob", and "parlour" are examples of this. Another is the us... | 41,920 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
homogeneity of the province's Scottish and Irish ethnicity. Examples include referring to the hood of a car as an "engine bonnet" and a barn as a "byre". The latter is much more common amongst older speakers. The arse end of a car may also be referred to as the "boot". "Go to the arse end of t... | 41,921 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
will also add an /s/ to the end of "somewhere" and "anywhere", producing "somewheres" and "anywheres".
The names of meals are not always used in the same way as in other parts of the country: "dinner" may refer to the meal eaten at midday; "supper" is the evening meal; and occasionally, parti... | 41,922 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
of "pull" and a deckhand on a boat being referred to as a "cork". A common way to describe drunkenness is to state that someone is "three sheets to the wind", which is a phrase used to describe a ship swaying in the wind due to loose sheets (ropes) in the rigging. A "jigger" can refer to any o... | 41,923 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
downstream into town". The word "Landed" (a boat landing on shore) can refer to arriving at a location by any means; "I landed at my neighbours house last night".
Some speakers make liberal use of profanity, with varying degrees of creativity. A couple of commonly heard phrases elsewhere unus... | 41,924 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
balanced mixture of American and British standards is spelling.
- Words such as "realize and "paralyze are usually spelled with "-ize" or "-yze" rather than "-ise" or "-yse". (The etymological convention that verbs derived from Greek roots are spelled with -ize and those from Latin with -ise ... | 41,925 |
5647844 | Atlantic Canadian English | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atlantic%20Canadian%20English | Atlantic Canadian English
Latin with -ise is preserved in that practice.)
- French-derived words that in American English end with "-or" and "-er", such as "color or "center, often retain British spellings ("colour and "centre).
- While the United States uses the Anglo-French spelling "defense and "offense (noun), mo... | 41,926 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (in case citations, M.D. Tenn.) is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee. Based at the Estes Kefauver ... | 41,927 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Q. Cochran is the United States Attorney.
The Middle District has three divisions.
(1) The Columbia Division comprises the counties of Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, and Wayne.
(2) The Northeastern Division comprises the counties of... | 41,928 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
judgeship was filled by President George Washington's appointment of John McNairy. Since Congress failed to assign the district to a circuit, the court had the jurisdiction of both a district court and a circuit court. Appeals from this one district cour... | 41,929 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
act provided for a "Sixth Circuit" comprising two districts in the State of Tennessee, one district in the State of Kentucky and one district, called the Ohio District, composed of the Ohio and Indiana territories (the latter including the present State ... | 41,930 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Any two judges constituted a quorum. New circuit judgeships were to be created as district judgeships in Kentucky and Tennessee became vacant.
The repeal of this Act restored the District on March 8, 1802, 2 Stat. 132. The District was divided into the ... | 41,931 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
On July 15, 1862, Congress reassigned appellate jurisdiction to the Sixth Circuit. Finally, on June 14, 1878, Congress authorized a separate judgeship for the Western District of Tennessee, at which time President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed David M. K... | 41,932 |
5647858 | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United%20States%20District%20Court%20for%20the%20Middle%20District%20of%20Tennessee | United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
ess reassigned appellate jurisdiction to the Sixth Circuit. Finally, on June 14, 1878, Congress authorized a separate judgeship for the Western District of Tennessee, at which time President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed David M. Key as judge for the Eas... | 41,933 |
11368841 | Allas-les-Mines | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allas-les-Mines | Allas-les-Mines
Allas-les-Mines
Allas-les-Mines () is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
# History.
In 1910, the commune of Allas-de-Berbiguières was renamed Allas-les-Mines.
# Places and monuments.
Museum "La rue du temps qui passe" (Boom Collection), created in 201... | 41,934 |
11368864 | Sarking | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarking | Sarking
Sarking
Sarking is an English word with multiple meanings in roof construction:
- The use of wood panels, or "sarking boards", called "sheathing", "sheeting" or "decking" in American English, under the roof-covering materials such as the shingles of a roof to provide support. It is a common term in Scotland, ... | 41,935 |
11368864 | Sarking | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarking | Sarking
to leakage.
- The word "sarking" is further used as part of the term "scrim and sarking", a method of interior construction widely used in Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this method, wooden panels were nailed over the beams and joists of the house frame, and a heavy, lo... | 41,936 |
11368864 | Sarking | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarking | Sarking
onstruction widely used in Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this method, wooden panels were nailed over the beams and joists of the house frame, and a heavy, loosely woven cloth, called scrim, was then stapled or tacked over the top of this. This construction method allowe... | 41,937 |
11368854 | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Local-level%20governments%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
This page is a list of local-level governments (LLGs) of Papua New Guinea. There are 326 LLGs comprising 6,112 wards as of 2018.
"Note": LLG names with slashes (/) are listed with dashes (-) due to technical limitations on Wikiped... | 41,938 |
11368854 | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Local-level%20governments%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
districts, and each district has one or more local-level government (LLG) areas. For census purposes, the LLG areas are subdivided into wards and those into census units.
Wards typically consist of a few hundred to a few thousand individuals, and are the lowest level of gove... | 41,939 |
11368854 | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Local-level%20governments%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
Guinea
- Provinces of Papua New Guinea
- Regions of Papua New Guinea
- List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea
- List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea by population
# References.
- LLG boundary maps by Province (National Research Institute of Papua New Guine... | 41,940 |
11368854 | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Local-level%20governments%20of%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Local-level governments of Papua New Guinea
of Papua New Guinea
- List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea
- List of cities and towns in Papua New Guinea by population
# References.
- LLG boundary maps by Province (National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea)
# External links.
- National Statistical Offic... | 41,941 |
11368909 | Cliff Graydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff%20Graydon | Cliff Graydon
Cliff Graydon
Cliff Graydon is a farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 2007, representing the electoral division of Emerson. Graydon is an independent,
having previously been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitob... | 41,942 |
11368909 | Cliff Graydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff%20Graydon | Cliff Graydon
Political Career.
After being elected in 2007, Graydon held various critic portfolios during his time in caucus, including: MPI; Liquor Control; Lotteries; Gaming; Agriculture; Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade; and Healthy Living and Seniors. Graydon was Progressive Conservative caucus whip from 2016... | 41,943 |
11368909 | Cliff Graydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff%20Graydon | Cliff Graydon
two legislative staffers. Before his expulsion, Graydon had indicated he would take a medical leave of absence from the legislature, not seek reelection in the next provincial election, and undergo further sensitivity training.
Graydon held a news conference on November 8, 2018 in which he denied all all... | 41,944 |
11368909 | Cliff Graydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff%20Graydon | Cliff Graydon
sensitivity training.
Graydon held a news conference on November 8, 2018 in which he denied all allegations, stating: "I admit I’m guilty of having a bad sense of humour and sincerely apologize to those who have been offended by my inconsiderate jokes. I have grown up in a different era and realize some ... | 41,945 |
11368917 | Blo.Torch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blo.Torch | Blo.Torch
Blo.Torch
Blo.Torch is a melodic death metal band from The Hague, Netherlands. Freely mixing genres, their style has also been described as black metal. Formed by Marvin Vriesde in 1996, they got their big break nationally when they won a prestigious regional talent competition, The Grote Prijs van Zuid-Holl... | 41,946 |
11368917 | Blo.Torch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blo.Torch | Blo.Torch
Quickly, however, the band complained about lack of support, and recorded and released the follow-up, "Volatile", independently. Since recording that album, the band has played smaller festivals and venues in the Netherlands.
In July 2005, Vriesde left the band (he is also active in Dew-Scented) and was repl... | 41,947 |
11368917 | Blo.Torch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blo.Torch | Blo.Torch
ursue other musical interests. Since 7 October 2006, the band's website has not been updated.
# Members.
## Current members.
- Hassan Moechtar - guitar
- Rory Hansen - guitar
- Pascal Rappailles - drums
- Chris van der Valk - vocals
## Past members.
- Sander Koole - bass
- John - Drums
- Michel de W... | 41,948 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is a scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern... | 41,949 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
is the leading scholarly journal in the field, with c.3,800 subscribers around the world. It features articles that can take any disciplinary approach, and are deemed to be original and significant to the field by peer-reviewers. The journal also features revi... | 41,950 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
graduate students—domestic and international) exchange new research and information face-to-face on an annual basis. The convention lasts four days and features approximately 500 panels and round-tables and 40 meetings.
The Annual Convention also provides the... | 41,951 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
for coverage of the news of the field and profession. Distributed to their 3,000 members five times a year, it reports the activities of members and affiliates, notes members’ recent publications, provides a calendar of conferences, features articles and speec... | 41,952 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
felt the need for additional academic analysis of the politics and history of the USSR and the so-called "Soviet bloc" nations as well as for improved facilities for language training for a new generation of foreign affairs specialists.
A number of American u... | 41,953 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) from its conception between the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies (JCSS) and the American Council of Learned Societies' professional journal to being its own membership organization.
The organ... | 41,954 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
JCSS set up a subcommittee specifically for the review of Russian studies, whose chief activity was to prompt and finalize a proposal for a national professional organization. This subcommittee joined forces with ACLS’s professional journal ASEER—"American Sla... | 41,955 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Association's official date of establishment.
Together, ASEER and JCSS coordinated the June 1, 1960 launch of a full-fledge national professional membership organization under the existing AAASS name. This new AAASS combined the activities of both the JCSS’s ... | 41,956 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
of identification and association among those concerned with Russian and East European Studies. Its main functions were to distribute an annual bibliography, to sponsor professional meetings and scholarly conferences, to provide a non-juried periodic newslette... | 41,957 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
new name reflects the Association's widened scope to Eurasia/Central Asia. The change in name coincided with the move of the Association's headquarters from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts to the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
## Or... | 41,958 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
scholarly meetings and activities within their respective regions of the US. ASEEES committees contribute to many aspects of the organization including scholarly ventures, prizes and publications. In addition, ASEEES has organizational ties with scholarly soci... | 41,959 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
ASEEES holds elections to designate a new Vice-President/President-Elect, two members-at-large, and (every other year) a graduate student representative.
Click here for more information and a list of current officers.
# Membership.
## Individual.
ASEEES ha... | 41,960 |
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job announcements, networking opportunities through its members-only website, and social networking groups
## Institutional.
Institutions with programs or interests in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies are eligible to become institutional members o... | 41,961 |
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recent literature that span all academic disciplines and geographic areas within Slavic studies. The "Slavic Review" is available on JSTOR.
The editorial offices of the "Slavic Review" are located at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
## "NewsNet"... | 41,962 |
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available online here.
# Annual conventions.
The annual convention is one of ASEEES' core activities. Each year, it provides an exciting international forum aimed at continuing intellectual vitality in the field through a broad exchange of ideas. Scholars, p... | 41,963 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
New York City in April 1964, under the chairmanship of Professor Holland Hunter of Haverford College. Although the organization initially held these gatherings every third year so as not to sap the strength of the organization, they have been held on an annual... | 41,964 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Social Studies
- Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize
- Ed A Hewett Book Prize
- Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
- Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies
- W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize (even-numbered years only)
- Graduate Student Essay Prize
- Tucker/Cohen Disser... | 41,965 |
11368803 | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Association%20for%20Slavic,%20East%20European,%20and%20Eurasian%20Studies | Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
regions of the US.
- Central Slavic Conference
- Midwest Slavic Conference
- Northeast Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Conference (formerly Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference)
- Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
- Southwest Slavic Association
- Weste... | 41,966 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
Istana Iskandariah
Istana Iskandariah is the royal palace of the Perak Sultanate and the official residence of the Sultan of Perak since its completion in 1933. It is located in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. All the Sultans of Perak have been installed in the palace since its com... | 41,967 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
points carefully where they could detect enemy approach from afar, the Sultan had his first royal palace built beside the riverbank. He then named it 'Istana Sri Sayong'.
Apart from being exposed to the impending threat of invasion, the other problem was the force of monsoon seasons, which led to nu... | 41,968 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
Perak on the site of the former Istana Negera (State Palace), which was built in 1895 by the late Sultan Idris Murshidul Azzam Shah I Ibni Almarhum Raja Bendahara Alang Iskandar (1887 - 1916). It occupies an area of 10,435 square meters.
On the death of Sultan Iskandar in 1938, Sultan Abdul Aziz Al-... | 41,969 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
of Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah (1984 - 2014).
# Architecture.
The design of the palace combines colonial European architecture with the pointed arches and onion-shaped domes of the Middle East and Central Asia. The building is rectangular in shape and faces the sunrise and the river. The roof is ... | 41,970 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
Guest Rooms and Their Royal Highnesses' suite; while the second floor houses of the Princess's bedrooms and another Royal Guest Room.
Above the second floor and under the main dome is a minaret. Here the hall measures 9.8 square meters and is used by the Royal family as a family hall.
In 1984, Ista... | 41,971 |
11368836 | Istana Iskandariah | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Istana%20Iskandariah | Istana Iskandariah
r level. The architecture of the extension is similar to that of the main palace so that it appears as if it were one building constructed at the same time.
The extension which measures 99 meters by 38.7 meters is rectangular in shape with one main dome and four smaller ones, one at each corner. As ... | 41,972 |
11368929 | Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captured%20US%20firearms%20in%20Axis%20use%20in%20World%20War%20II | Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II
Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II
US firearms that were captured and redesignated by the Third Reich.
# Pistols.
- Pistole 657(n) Ex "Kongsberg Colt" – .45 ACP
- Pistole 660(a) Ex "M1911" – .45 ACP
- Revolver 661(a) Ex "Colt M1917" – .45 ACP
- Revolv... | 41,973 |
11368929 | Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captured%20US%20firearms%20in%20Axis%20use%20in%20World%20War%20II | Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II
n) Ex "Kongsberg Colt" – .45 ACP
- Pistole 660(a) Ex "M1911" – .45 ACP
- Revolver 661(a) Ex "Colt M1917" – .45 ACP
- Revolver 662(a) Ex "Smith & Wesson M1917" – .45 ACP
# Submachine guns.
- Maschinenpistole 760/2(r) Ex "Thompson Model 1928" – .45 ACP
- Maschinenpis... | 41,974 |
11368843 | Andrew DeGraffenreidt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew%20DeGraffenreidt | Andrew DeGraffenreidt
Andrew DeGraffenreidt
Andrew Degraffenreidt (3 March 1928 – 25 February 2009) was an educator and politician. He was notable as the first African-American commissioner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
# Education.
DeGraffenreidt was born in Kansas City, Missouri and reared in Hollandale, Mississipp... | 41,975 |
11368843 | Andrew DeGraffenreidt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew%20DeGraffenreidt | Andrew DeGraffenreidt
moved to Everglades Middle School, where he was both a teacher and the chairman of the school's science department. Additionally, he was the teacher for several programs for the Broward County School's ITV Center, including a program that focused on the contributions of minorities to the developme... | 41,976 |
11368843 | Andrew DeGraffenreidt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew%20DeGraffenreidt | Andrew DeGraffenreidt
to establish a Youth Advisory Board and improve city infrastructure. He also pushed for the hiring of more minorities in the city's police department. He played a key role in the opening of the Von D. Mizell Community Center in Fort Lauderdale's historically black Dorsey-Riverbend neighborhood. He... | 41,977 |
11368843 | Andrew DeGraffenreidt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew%20DeGraffenreidt | Andrew DeGraffenreidt
Recreation, and Beaches Advisory Board. He was active with the United Way, Northwest Boys Club Advisory Board, Broward County Charter Commission Municipal Government Task Force, and served as an adviser to the "Miami Herald's" "Newspapers in Education" program. He was the city of Fort Lauderdale's... | 41,978 |
11368843 | Andrew DeGraffenreidt | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew%20DeGraffenreidt | Andrew DeGraffenreidt
pal Government Task Force, and served as an adviser to the "Miami Herald's" "Newspapers in Education" program. He was the city of Fort Lauderdale's "Honored Founder" for the year of 2002.
His son, Andrew DeGraffenreidt III, is an attorney who previously served as the city attorney for Hollywood, ... | 41,979 |
11368945 | Loki Patera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loki%20Patera | Loki Patera
Loki Patera
Loki Patera is the largest volcanic depression on Jupiter's moon Io, in diameter. It contains an active lava lake, with an episodically overturning crust. The level of activity seen is similar to a superfast spreading mid-ocean ridge on Earth. Temperature measurements of thermal emission at Lok... | 41,980 |
11368945 | Loki Patera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loki%20Patera | Loki Patera
reveal glowing molten rock along Loki Patera's margin, caused by the lake's crust breaking up along the edge of the patera. Over time, because the solidified lava is denser than the still-molten magma below, this crust can founder, triggering an increase in thermal emission at the volcano. At sites such as ... | 41,981 |
11368945 | Loki Patera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loki%20Patera | Loki Patera
longer be buoyant over the molten lava.
On March 8, 2015 a rare orbital alignment occurred between Io and Europa, two of Jupiter's moons, that allowed researchers to separate heat being emitted. They were able to accomplish this because Europa's surface is coated in water ice which reflects small amounts o... | 41,982 |
11368945 | Loki Patera | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loki%20Patera | Loki Patera
tera every 400–600 days. The images that helped researchers and scientist discover this were captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in southeast Arizona. The observation also revealed that there is a difference in the magma supply of the two halves of Loki.
Loki Patera is located at . It is ... | 41,983 |
11368986 | Suō-Ōshima | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suō-Ōshima | Suō-Ōshima
Suō-Ōshima
Suō-Ōshima was formed on October 1, 2004 from the merger of the former towns of Ōshima, Kuka, Tachibana and Tōwa, all from towns of Ōshima District.
As of April 1, 2017, the town has an estimated population of 17,030. The total area is 138.17 km².
Suo-Oshima has established a sister island rela... | 41,984 |
11368986 | Suō-Ōshima | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suō-Ōshima | Suō-Ōshima
County of Kauai, Hawaii in 1963. A 50th Anniversary commemoration was held on Kauai in October 2013. Current Mayors Takumi Shiiki (Suo-Oshima) and Bernard P. Carvalho, Jr. (Kauai) signed a Reaffirmation of Friendship agreement.
Schools in Suo-Oshima:
Oshima Shosen, Suo-Oshima High School
Junior High Schoo... | 41,985 |
11368984 | Celebrate Your Name Week | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celebrate%20Your%20Name%20Week | Celebrate Your Name Week
Celebrate Your Name Week
Celebrate Your Name Week (CYNW) is a holiday established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names... | 41,986 |
11368984 | Celebrate Your Name Week | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celebrate%20Your%20Name%20Week | Celebrate Your Name Week
Names Day, Learn What Your Name Means Day, Middle Name Pride Day,and Genealogy Day.
# Background.
In his childhood, Hill heard of a child who was killed in his city. The child was also named Jerry Hill. This and other occurrences made Hill increasingly curious about names, and Hill's intrigue... | 41,987 |
11368984 | Celebrate Your Name Week | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celebrate%20Your%20Name%20Week | Celebrate Your Name Week
the international publication Chase's Calendar of Annual Events.
As JHPN's audience climbed to over a quarter million visits, Hill's desire to transform visitors into participants resulted in the establishment of the CYNW website with its many ideas for all interested parties to participate in... | 41,988 |
11368984 | Celebrate Your Name Week | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celebrate%20Your%20Name%20Week | Celebrate Your Name Week
to church held festivals for saints of that name on any given day. In certain countries a person's name day is celebrated with as much dedication as one would celebrate a birthday, and may include gifts for the honoree.
Cultural celebrations of names include, for Hindus, celebrating Namkaran S... | 41,989 |
11368984 | Celebrate Your Name Week | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celebrate%20Your%20Name%20Week | Celebrate Your Name Week
Namakaran, naming of a child, is the first real ceremony held for the newborn Hindu child. The ceremony is usually held on the 12th day of the child's birth, although, according to one custom, it can be held on any day after the tenth day, and before the first birthday. In a land where cultures... | 41,990 |
11368939 | Joe Meriweather | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Meriweather | Joe Meriweather
Joe Meriweather
Joe C. Meriweather (born October 26, 1953 – October 13, 2013) was an American professional basketball player.
A 6'10" center from Southern Illinois University, Meriweather played ten seasons (1975–1985) in the NBA as a member of the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Jazz, New... | 41,991 |
11368939 | Joe Meriweather | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe%20Meriweather | Joe Meriweather
course of his NBA career, Meriweather averaged 8.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks.
He played for the US national team in the 1974 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
Meriweather spent the 1985–86 basketball season playing for Granarolo Bologna in Italy.
He coached the Kansas City... | 41,992 |
11368946 | 1968 American Football League season | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968%20American%20Football%20League%20season | 1968 American Football League season
1968 American Football League season
The 1968 American Football League season was the ninth regular season of the American Football League, and its penultimate season prior to the AFL–NFL merger.
The season ended when the New York Jets (11–3) defeated the Oakland Raiders (12–2) in... | 41,993 |
11368946 | 1968 American Football League season | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968%20American%20Football%20League%20season | 1968 American Football League season
of the Cincinnati Bengals, the AFL's ten teams were split equally into two divisions. Each played a home-and-away game against the other four teams in its division, one game against each of the five teams in the opposite division, and a second game against one of the other division'... | 41,994 |
11368946 | 1968 American Football League season | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968%20American%20Football%20League%20season | 1968 American Football League season
division winner. The Jets, with the third-best record in the league in 1968, had a week off and hosted the title game.
# Regular season.
The Cincinnati Bengals joined the league as an expansion team.
# Playoffs.
- Western Division playoff
- Oakland Raiders 41, Kansas City Chief... | 41,995 |
11368946 | 1968 American Football League season | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1968%20American%20Football%20League%20season | 1968 American Football League season
he Cincinnati Bengals joined the league as an expansion team.
# Playoffs.
- Western Division playoff
- Oakland Raiders 41, Kansas City Chiefs 6, December 22, 1968, Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
- AFL Championship Game
- New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 2... | 41,996 |
11368924 | Gunasena Galappatty | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gunasena%20Galappatty | Gunasena Galappatty
Gunasena Galappatty
Gunasena Galappatty (born June 7, 1927, in Dikwella in Matara, Sri Lanka) was a Sri Lankan dramatist, director, producer, and Sinhala radio play writer regarded as the pioneer of suspense drama in Sri Lanka.
# Education.
Galappatty attended Dikwella Central College and Matara ... | 41,997 |
11368924 | Gunasena Galappatty | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gunasena%20Galappatty | Gunasena Galappatty
was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study experimental theatre at University of Yale, United States.
He was a teacher at Kotte Ananda Sastralaya in 1955 and next joined for a while the State Language Department as a translator, again continuing as a teacher .
# Career.
From Yale, he went to Br... | 41,998 |
11368924 | Gunasena Galappatty | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gunasena%20Galappatty | Gunasena Galappatty
and "The Marriage-Go-Round".
He then traveled to many countries, including Spain, Japan and Russia, to study various drama styles and methods. He admired Spain's Federico García Lorca and spent a few weeks experiencing Lorca productions such as "Yerma". In Japan, he studied traditional "kabuki" dra... | 41,999 |
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