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8790052 | Nelson complexity index | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nelson%20complexity%20index | Nelson complexity index
an trial production on December 25, 2008. The former BP Texas City, Texas refinery, newly acquired by Marathon Petroleum as their Galveston Bay Refinery has a Nelson complexity index of 15.3 in 2013.
The "Oil and Gas Journal" annually calculates and publishes a list of refineries with their ass... | 45,400 |
8790046 | The Play About the Baby | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Play%20About%20the%20Baby | The Play About the Baby
The Play About the Baby
The Play About the Baby is a play by Edward Albee.
# Productions.
The play premiered in London in September 1998 at the Almeida Theatre Company in Malvern, Worcestershire, directed by Howard Davies.
The play's American premiere was in Houston, Texas at the Alley Theat... | 45,401 |
8790046 | The Play About the Baby | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Play%20About%20the%20Baby | The Play About the Baby
Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Marian Seldes) and 2001 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play, Outstanding Actress (Marian Seldes) and Outstanding Actor (Brian Murray).
The play was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
# Overview.
The play opens in a version... | 45,402 |
8790046 | The Play About the Baby | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Play%20About%20the%20Baby | The Play About the Baby
the Mount, the Woman translates into sign language. They say they are there to take the baby away. Boy asks who they are, wondering if they might be Gypsies. As the play ends, the Man shows them that the blanket that held the baby is empty.
Albee "has confirmed that the baby is meant to be real... | 45,403 |
8790046 | The Play About the Baby | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Play%20About%20the%20Baby | The Play About the Baby
at least an equal number will be mesmerized as well. Witty, cryptic and finally very disturbing, the play is essential (if minor) Albee that shows a major American dramatist — now age 70 — continuing a career of experimentation that has always been very European in its absurdist embrace and subs... | 45,404 |
8790046 | The Play About the Baby | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Play%20About%20the%20Baby | The Play About the Baby
, who find the wrenching emotion in what could be highly self-conscious and arch."
Charles Isherwood, in his review of the 2001 production for "Variety," wrote: "...for all its vaudevillian diversions and seemingly pointless digressions, it’s clear and sharp as a knife, and full of subtle corre... | 45,405 |
8790122 | Let Us Compare Mythologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let%20Us%20Compare%20Mythologies | Let Us Compare Mythologies
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Let Us Compare Mythologies is the first poetry book by Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen. Written in 1956, shortly after Cohen left McGill University where he studied English literature, it was first published as part of the McGill Poetry Series operated b... | 45,406 |
8790122 | Let Us Compare Mythologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Let%20Us%20Compare%20Mythologies | Let Us Compare Mythologies
onard Cohen. Written in 1956, shortly after Cohen left McGill University where he studied English literature, it was first published as part of the McGill Poetry Series operated by Louis Dudek. In 2007, the book returned to print in a 50th anniversary facsimile edition, published by Ecco Pres... | 45,407 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
The Chicago O'Hare UFO sighting occurred on November 7, 2006, when people at Chicago O'Hare International Airport reported a UFO sighting.
# The sighting.
At approximately 16:15 CST on November 7, 2006, federal authorities ... | 45,408 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
by pilots, airline management and mechanics. No air traffic controllers saw the object, and it did not show up on radar.
Witnesses described the object as completely silent, in diameter and dark gray in color. Several independent witnesses outside of the airport also saw ... | 45,409 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
close to a dozen United Airlines employees, ranging from pilots to supervisors, who heard chatter on the radio and raced out to view it." There is no photographic or video evidence of the UFO.
# Reaction from the Federal Aviation Administration and United Airlines.
Both ... | 45,410 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
to an FAA manager in the airport tower concerning the UFO sighting.
The FAA stance concludes that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would therefore not be investigating the incident. According to astronomer Mark Hammergren, weather condit... | 45,411 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
reported by at least one of them, hovering in plain sight, over one of the busiest airports in the world. Some witnesses interviewed by the "Tribune" were apparently "upset" that federal officials declined to further investigate the matter. NARCAP published a 155-page repo... | 45,412 |
8790044 | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%20O'Hare%20International%20Airport%20UFO%20sighting | 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting
sing technologies: "Anytime an airborne object can hover for several minutes over a busy airport but not be registered on radar or seen visually from the control tower, (it) constitutes a potential threat to flight safety."
# Media coverage.
The Chicago O'Hare airport UF... | 45,413 |
8790094 | E. C. Singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.%20C.%20Singer | E. C. Singer
E. C. Singer
E. C. Singer was an American engineer (and the nephew of Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine) who worked on secret projects for the benefit of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and who invented the spar torpedo. Singer's torpedo was a large explosive device mount... | 45,414 |
8790094 | E. C. Singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.%20C.%20Singer | E. C. Singer
an engineer (and the nephew of Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine) who worked on secret projects for the benefit of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and who invented the spar torpedo. Singer's torpedo was a large explosive device mounted on the tip of a long spar. It was det... | 45,415 |
8790149 | Sequeiró | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sequeiró | Sequeiró
Sequeiró
Sequeiró is a former civil parish in the municipality of Santo Tirso, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Areias, Sequeiró, Lama e Palmeira. It is located 3 km north of the city of Santo Tirso. | 45,416 |
8790166 | Hi-Five My Remix | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hi-Five%20My%20Remix | Hi-Five My Remix
Hi-Five My Remix
Hi-Five My Remix is a 2003 remix album featuring the music of Freezepop. Though hard copies of the album are currently out of print, the album is available through iTunes and other digital download services.
Half of the tracks on the album are remixed versions of the song "Super-Sprø... | 45,417 |
8790120 | Ultra 5/10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ultra%205/10 | Ultra 5/10
Ultra 5/10
The Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 are 64-bit Sun Microsystems workstations based on the UltraSPARC microprocessor line available since January 1998 and last shipped in November 2002.
These systems are notable for being the first in the Sun workstation line to introduce various commodity PC compatible har... | 45,418 |
8790120 | Ultra 5/10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ultra%205/10 | Ultra 5/10
en 4 and 20 GB, a CD-ROM drive, three 32-bit 33 MHz PCI slots (two full-size, one short), a graphics port (HD15), a parallel printer port (DB25), two serial ports (DB25 and DE9), an Ethernet port (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX) and headphone, line-in, line-out and microphone 3.5-mm jacks.
The Ultra 10 came in a mid-t... | 45,419 |
8790058 | John Dyfnallt Owen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Dyfnallt%20Owen | John Dyfnallt Owen
John Dyfnallt Owen
Rev. John Dyfnallt Owen (7 April 1873 – 28 December 1956), was a Welsh poet, and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1954 until his death. He was often known simply by his bardic name, "Dyfnallt".
Owen was born in Llangiwg, Glamorgan, and was brought up b... | 45,420 |
8790058 | John Dyfnallt Owen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Dyfnallt%20Owen | John Dyfnallt Owen
World War I, he served as a chaplain in France. In 1927, he became editor of the Welsh-language journal "Y Tyst". In 1936 he became President of the Union of Welsh Independents (Chapels).
Like all Archdruids, he was a winner of a major poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod, in his case the crown a... | 45,421 |
8790058 | John Dyfnallt Owen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Dyfnallt%20Owen | John Dyfnallt Owen
in 1953. At the age of 80 he was elected Archdruid of Wales at Rhyl in 1954.
# Works.
- "Myfyrion a chaneuon maes y tân" (1918), (poems and meditations on his experiences on the battlefield)
- "O ben tir Llydaw" (1934)
- "Min yr hwyr" (1934)
- "Y greal a cherddi eraill" (1946)
- "Rhamant a Rhyd... | 45,422 |
8790058 | John Dyfnallt Owen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Dyfnallt%20Owen | John Dyfnallt Owen
(1918), (poems and meditations on his experiences on the battlefield)
- "O ben tir Llydaw" (1934)
- "Min yr hwyr" (1934)
- "Y greal a cherddi eraill" (1946)
- "Rhamant a Rhyddid" (1952)
- "Ar y tŵr" (1953)
# Sources.
"Dictionary of Welsh Biography" https://biography.wales/article/s2-OWEN-DYF-1... | 45,423 |
8790181 | Maxi Ultra Fresh | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maxi%20Ultra%20Fresh | Maxi Ultra Fresh
Maxi Ultra Fresh
Maxi Ultra•Fresh is a 2005 remix album featuring the music of Freezepop. Though hard copies of the album are currently out of print, the album is available through iTunes and other digital download services. The first three songs on the album are not remixes, and are identical to the ... | 45,424 |
8790218 | Musashino Terrace | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musashino%20Terrace | Musashino Terrace
Musashino Terrace
The , also translated as Musashino Platform, is a large tableland (known as a fluvial terrace) in the Kantō region of Honshu, Japan.
# Location.
Much of western Tokyo, between the Tama River to the south and the Arakawa River to the north, is built on the plateau. Its northern sec... | 45,425 |
8790063 | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great%20Grimsby%20and%20Sheffield%20Junction%20Railway | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway was an early British railway company which existed between 1845 and 1847 with the intention of providing rail services between Grimsby, New Holland and Gainsborough in the county o... | 45,426 |
8790063 | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great%20Grimsby%20and%20Sheffield%20Junction%20Railway | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
on the Dogger Bank trade increased and in 1845 the Grimsby Haven became part of the Grimsby Docks Company. Five of its directors were also on the board of the proposed Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway, intended to connect with the proposed Sheffield and Lincolnshir... | 45,427 |
8790063 | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great%20Grimsby%20and%20Sheffield%20Junction%20Railway | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
Docks Company was approved in 1845. The ferries on the Humber were also purchased and a branch would be built to New Holland. In 1846 permission was gained for line from Market Rasen to Lincoln.
## Lines and stations.
The first board meeting of the amalgamated Manchester, ... | 45,428 |
8790063 | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great%20Grimsby%20and%20Sheffield%20Junction%20Railway | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
Curtis. The line from Ulceby to Brigg opened a few months later, followed by that to Market Rasen and thence to Lincoln. The first included stations at Brocklesby and Barnetby. The latter had stations at Moortown, Holton Le Moor, Usselby, Wickenby, Langworth and Reepham. The... | 45,429 |
8790063 | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great%20Grimsby%20and%20Sheffield%20Junction%20Railway | Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
to Market Rasen and thence to Lincoln. The first included stations at Brocklesby and Barnetby. The latter had stations at Moortown, Holton Le Moor, Usselby, Wickenby, Langworth and Reepham. The section between Brigg and Gainsborough opened in 1849, with stations at Scawby an... | 45,430 |
8790146 | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sackville,%205th%20Earl%20of%20Dorset | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (16 September 1622 – 27 August 1677) was an English peer and politician.
# Background.
He was born at Dorset House, the second of three children of Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset and Mary Curzon, d... | 45,431 |
8790146 | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sackville,%205th%20Earl%20of%20Dorset | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
War, and was arrested by Parliament in 1642 and fined £1500 in 1644. After that point, however, he played no active role in the conflict. He resumed a political career in 1660; he sat in the new parliament or convention that managed the Restoration, and, among other posts, chaired ... | 45,432 |
8790146 | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sackville,%205th%20Earl%20of%20Dorset | Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
poem in mourning of Ben Jonson was included in the memorial volume "Jonsonus Virbius" (1638), published in the year after the poet laureate's death. John Aubrey reproduced a report that Sackville translated Corneille's" Le Cid". Sackville was elected a fellow of the Royal Society i... | 45,433 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
The JB Institute of Engineering and Technology (JBIET) (autonomous) is a technical institute located in Amdapur X (Cross) Roads, near Chilkur, Hyderabad, India. It is 22 km from the city center. The college is approved by All I... | 45,434 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
It has an intake of more than 1050 students.
# Courses.
The seven branches of engineering and technology offered are -:
## Undergraduate courses.
- Electronics & Computer Science
- Biotechnology
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Information Technology Engineering
... | 45,435 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
J. Bhaskar Rao for providing education in English.
J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology (JBIET), was established by JBES on 27 acres on the main road at Yenkapally village, Vikarabad main road, Moinabad Mandal, Hyderabad–75, with the approval of All India Council ... | 45,436 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
EAMCET category
The Government of Telangana allows admission of diploma holders into 2nd year under "lateral entry scheme" to the extent of 20% of intake to each of the branches on a supernumerary basis.
# Facilities.
## Microsoft IT ACADEMY.
The Microsoft IT Academy pr... | 45,437 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
206 periodicals and journals (both national and international) and 10 daily newspapers (English and Telugu) are in the Library.
## Student Activity Centre.
The Student Activity Centre housing the student body of JBIET started in 2002.
## Student clubs.
The oldest studen... | 45,438 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
Society Of India (CSI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and The Institution of Engineers (India). JBIET also has units of the National Service Scheme (NSS) functioning in its campus. Other international organizations such as AIESEC are active in JBI... | 45,439 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
activities.
InXs
The college hosts a yearly two-day fest/annual day called 'INXS' mostly during April or March.
The college organizes a yearly national level technical fest called INFOQUEST which is held in October/November. It is organized under the banner of IEEE, ACM ... | 45,440 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
This contains statistics about the college, messages from dignitaries like Governor on occasion of Inxs, and articles from students and faculty. Articles are written in English, Hindi, and Telugu.
# Sports.
Sports at JBIET are a part of the curriculum and the institute of... | 45,441 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
Department of EEE
BioFusion
- Department of Bio Technology
Eloquence
- Department of ECE- Clique
Progrezion
- Department of ECM-
Aliens Fest
- EngineersHub, a private company independently organizes this Technical Fest popularly known as India’s Largest Technology a... | 45,442 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
recruitment drives.
Companies who have recruited students include Mahindra & Mahindra, Accenture, Mindtree, Infosys, MAQ, Oceanship Maritime, Omega Maritime, I-Flex Solutions, Maveric Systems, Siemens, Technip, Amada Soft, Foster Wheeler, Infosys, Mphasis, Sapient, Birla S... | 45,443 |
8790175 | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20B.%20Institute%20of%20Engineering%20and%20Technology | J. B. Institute of Engineering and Technology
, Accenture, Mindtree, Infosys, MAQ, Oceanship Maritime, Omega Maritime, I-Flex Solutions, Maveric Systems, Siemens, Technip, Amada Soft, Foster Wheeler, Infosys, Mphasis, Sapient, Birla Soft, HCL, I-Gate, Rofous Technologies, Wipro, Patni, Reliance, TATA Consultancy, Cogni... | 45,444 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
Richard Sharp (politician)
Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA (1759 – 30 March 1835), also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was a British hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist.
He was at various times known in London society as "Hatter Sharp", "Furrier Sh... | 45,445 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
a haberdasher of hats by trade. He completed his apprenticeship, and by the early 1730s he was George Baker’s partner in the successful hatting business on Fish Street Hill in the City of London. Baker & Sharp were frequent buyers of beaver at Hudson’s Bay Company sales, which they would have... | 45,446 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
also called Richard, had obtained a commission as ensign in the 40th Regiment of Foot in 1756; was stationed at St John’s Newfoundland, where he married a local woman, Elizabeth Adams in 1759, and returned to England about 1763, dying in London two years later. They had two young sons, Richar... | 45,447 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
share. In 1775, shortly before his death, Sharp added a codicil showing that Richard, the elder of the two boys, had become the apprentice. Provisions were also made to loan substantial sums from the estate to Thomas Cable Davis, who must not have had enough capital to maintain the business o... | 45,448 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
been settled by the time he was 11 years old. His wealthy grandfather’s determination to keep the business in family hands would have left the child no opportunity to plan for anything different. Before his apprenticeship began, however, Sharp had been placed with a private tutor at Thaxted, ... | 45,449 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
intellectual stimulation, and finding political issues that interested him. It was not hard to enter the ranks of society where that was possible – he had some family money, and there were plenty of individuals in and about the City, many of them young, who enjoyed thought-provoking books, fa... | 45,450 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
Abolition of the Slave Trade (formed in 1787), and he became a member of various reform political clubs over the next few years.
In 1798 Sharp finally left the hatting business, which came to an end when the other partner, his stepfather Davis, died two years later. In response to an invitat... | 45,451 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
anti-slavery sympathies, as the entire West India trade was based on the use of plantation slaves.
A commentator described Sharp at about the age of 30 as:
Sharp made so much money as a merchant, and through his investments and banking connections, that he eventually left £250,000 in his Wi... | 45,452 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
and although much of their correspondence with Sharp has been sold overseas, some may still be seen within the poets' collected works.
## Powers as a conversationalist.
Despite his modest roots, Richard Sharp's exceptional cleverness and powers of conversation gained him acceptance in the h... | 45,453 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
for being an extremely talented, quick-witted and humorous man with a tenacious memory. He described Richard Sharp as,
Francis Horner, an original contributor to the "Edinburgh Review" and a barrister before he turned to politics, met Sharp when he came to London:
Horner later wrote to Lady... | 45,454 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
greater influence on his thinking than almost any other person. In Byron's opinion Sharp was one of those who had "lived much with the best – Fox, Horne Tooke, Windham, Fitzpatrick and all the agitators of other times and tongues"; while Macaulay was similarly impressed by Sharp when he comme... | 45,455 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
reputation as a critic increased when his close friend, Samuel Rogers, began to emerge as the most eminent and popular poet of that period (his poem "To a Friend" being dedicated to Sharp) and both visited Wordsworth in the Lakes and gave him important 'city' support before this new, naturali... | 45,456 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
most vital commodities that an aspiring young man could acquire. Rogers' home in St James's Place was visited by almost every famous person in London and he was a guest of royalty. Both men were habitués at the fashionable Whig salon, Holland House, and considerable correspondence between Sha... | 45,457 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
from abroad such as the intriguing but formidable Mme de Staël. Guests were recorded and included such names as Henry Hallam, Thomas Colley Grattan, Sydney Smith John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Basil Hall, Dugald Stewart, Horne Tooke, Lord Jeffrey, Archbishop Whately, Walter Scott, Tom Moore, G... | 45,458 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
to the Society for Constitutional Information and helped, with other leading Whigs, to establish the Society of the Friends of the People. At about the same time he became one of the Dissenters' "Deputies" – it being the custom for each dissenting congregation within ten miles of London to be... | 45,459 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
produced prints showing the cramped layout on a typical slave ship (the "Brookes"), which had a profound effect on all who saw it, significantly helping to change public opinion regarding the slave trade. The print showed each slave being allocated less than 2 metres height and .5-metre width... | 45,460 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
1827. In the House of Commons he often sat next to his friend, Samuel Whitbread, and supported his move for popular education.
# Clubs and societies.
Sharp was a founder member of the intellectual "King of Clubs" conversation club; and a member of many other London clubs and societies, incl... | 45,461 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
Fishmongers' Company.
# London Institution.
Sharp's shrewdness and eloquence were frequently aimed at bringing about some tangible outcome or change, and he was a leading figure in the foundation of the London Institution, an establishment for popular education, in 1806. One commentator wro... | 45,462 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
1827 and 1831 he was Vice-President. As his interest in education grew he supported Whitbread's move for a proper system of state education as well as Henry Brougham's drive for a fully-fledged city University.
Sharp's initiative predates that of his better known contemporary, George Birkbec... | 45,463 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
had suffered all his life with a cough and a bad chest and Torquay was noted for both its health-giving air and Italianate landscape, but in 1834 the winter was particularly severe and as Sharp succumbed he resolved that he would die in his beloved London. He set off for the city with his fam... | 45,464 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
infant, Maria Kinnaird, who had been orphaned by a catastrophic volcano eruption in the West Indies. Maria, as a teenager, knew William Wordsworth's daughter, Dora, very well and later led an interesting and colourful life in London society. Macaulay and Romilly (son of Samuel Romilly) were a... | 45,465 |
8789979 | Richard Sharp (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Sharp%20(politician) | Richard Sharp (politician)
as "Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse" (1834). The "Quarterly Review" described it as remarkable for "wisdom, wit, knowledge of the world and sound criticism". Several editions were published, including an American edition.
Sharp considered writing a history of American independence and ... | 45,466 |
8790190 | Grand Master (Masonic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand%20Master%20(Masonic) | Grand Master (Masonic)
Grand Master (Masonic)
A Grand Master is a title of honour as well as an office in Freemasonry, given to a freemason elected to oversee a Masonic jurisdiction, derived from the office of Grand Masters in chivalric orders. He presides over a Grand Lodge, and has certain rights in the constituent ... | 45,467 |
8790190 | Grand Master (Masonic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand%20Master%20(Masonic) | Grand Master (Masonic)
lodge officers to assist him, so the Grand Master of each Grand Lodge annually appoints Grand Lodge officers to assist him in his work. Grand Lodges often elect or appoint Deputy Grand Masters (sometimes also known as District Deputy Grand Masters) who can act on behalf of the Grand Master when h... | 45,468 |
8790190 | Grand Master (Masonic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand%20Master%20(Masonic) | Grand Master (Masonic)
the Deputy Grand Master.
# Traditions.
There are two distinct traditions in connection with the office of Grand Master. Generally speaking, the European practice is for the same Grand Master to be re-elected for several consecutive years, maybe even several decades, whilst in other countries a ... | 45,469 |
8790190 | Grand Master (Masonic) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grand%20Master%20(Masonic) | Grand Master (Masonic)
ster. Generally speaking, the European practice is for the same Grand Master to be re-elected for several consecutive years, maybe even several decades, whilst in other countries a Grand Master serves a set term of only one to three years, and then retires.
In several European countries, the pos... | 45,470 |
8790237 | Sessions (Descendents EP) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sessions%20(Descendents%20EP) | Sessions (Descendents EP)
Sessions (Descendents EP)
Sessions is an EP by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1997 through Sessions Records and consisting of two tracks from the recording of their 1996 album "Everything Sucks". "Gotta" was written by and features the band's original bassist Tony Lo... | 45,471 |
8790237 | Sessions (Descendents EP) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sessions%20(Descendents%20EP) | Sessions (Descendents EP)
"Gotta" was written by and features the band's original bassist Tony Lombardo; it was left off of the album and used as a B-side for the "When I Get Old" single. "Grand Theme" is an instrumental track that was included on the album as a hidden track following "Thank You".
# Personnel.
- Band... | 45,472 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park or local people known as TNBTS is a national park located in East Java, Indonesia, to the east of Malang and Lumajang, to the south of Pasuruan and Probolinggo, and to the southeast of Surabaya, the capital of East... | 45,473 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
Tengger Kingdom.
The Tengger Sand Sea has been protected since 1919. The Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park was declared a national park in 1982.
# Geography.
## Tengger massif.
The Tengger massif is a massif within the park. The area is an active volcanic complex surrounded by a ... | 45,474 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
() trees. Mount Widodaren, located beside Mount Batok, contains the cave Widodaren, which is considered sacred by local people.
The five volcanoes within the caldera are surrounded by a vast area of sand called the Tengger Sand Sea, which in turn is surrounded by a steep crater wall ... | 45,475 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
south in the national park, there is another volcanic complex called the Semeru Group or Jambangan Group. This area contains the highest peak of Java, Mount Semeru (3,676 m). Other mountains within this area are Mount Lanang (2,313 m), Mount Ayek-ayek (2,819 m), Mount Pangonan Cilik (... | 45,476 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
with fertile rice fields.
## Climate.
The climate in Bromo Tengger Semeru is cold, especially winter in middle year during May until September. The summers in early and late year here have a heavy of rainfall, while the winters in middle year have very little and in midnight until d... | 45,477 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
the southern area of Semeru, East Semeru (Burno), and West Semeru (Patok Picis).
This zone is dominated with plants of the families Fagaceae, Moraceae, Anacardiaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Rubiaceae. There are also liana trees, such as a variety from the genus "Calamus", "Piper", "Asple... | 45,478 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
"kemlandingan gunung" ("Albizia lophantha"), acacia bark ("Acacia decurrens") and bottom plants such as Javanese edelweiss or "senduro" ("Anaphalis longifongila" and "Anaphalis javanica"), "Imperata cylindrica", "Pteris" sp., "Themeda" sp. and "Centella asiatica".
The Tengger Sand Se... | 45,479 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
"Kemlandingan gunung" ("Albizia lophantha") and Javanese edelweiss can also be found growing in this zone.
On Mount Semeru, there is no plant life above the altitude of 3,100 m. This zone is covered in loose sandstones.
# Flora and fauna.
Some endangered flora are protected in this... | 45,480 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
macaque, marbled cat and Javan leopard.
# Culture.
The area in and around the park is inhabited by the Tengger people, one of the few significant Hindu communities remaining on the island of Java. Their population of roughly 600,000 is centered in thirty villages in the isolated Ten... | 45,481 |
8790147 | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bromo%20Tengger%20Semeru%20National%20Park | Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park
people, one of the few significant Hindu communities remaining on the island of Java. Their population of roughly 600,000 is centered in thirty villages in the isolated Tengger mountains including Mount Bromo and areas within the park. The local religion is a remnant from the Majapahi... | 45,482 |
8790251 | Fashion Impression Function | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fashion%20Impression%20Function | Fashion Impression Function
Fashion Impression Function
Fashion Impression Function is a 2001 EP by Freezepop. Tracks 5, 7, 8 and 9 are remix versions of songs found on the band's previous album "Freezepop Forever". The Mastermind mix of the song "Manipulate" later appeared on the album "Fancy Ultra•Fresh".
"Fashion ... | 45,483 |
8790275 | Negrelos (São Mamede) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Negrelos%20(São%20Mamede) | Negrelos (São Mamede)
Negrelos (São Mamede)
Negrelos (São Mamede) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Santo Tirso, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Campo (São Martinho), São Salvador do Campo e Negrelos (São Mamede). | 45,484 |
8790278 | List of badge-engineered vehicles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20badge-engineered%20vehicles | List of badge-engineered vehicles
List of badge-engineered vehicles
This is a list of vehicles that have been considered to be the result of badge engineering (rebadging), cloning, platform sharing, joint ventures between different car manufacturing companies, captive imports, or simply the practice of selling the sam... | 45,485 |
8790278 | List of badge-engineered vehicles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20badge-engineered%20vehicles | List of badge-engineered vehicles
ehicles that have been considered to be the result of badge engineering (rebadging), cloning, platform sharing, joint ventures between different car manufacturing companies, captive imports, or simply the practice of selling the same or similar cars in different markets (or even side-b... | 45,486 |
8790281 | Fear Itself | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fear%20Itself | Fear Itself
Fear Itself
Fear Itself may refer to:
# Music.
- Fear Itself (band), a 1960s rock band
- "Fear Itself" (Fear Itself album) (1969)
- "Fear Itself" (Casual album) (1994)
- "Xenophobe/Fear Itself", a 2015 EP by Zao
# Film and TV.
- "Fear Itself" (film), a 2015 film by Charlie Lyne
- "Fear Itself" (TV ... | 45,487 |
8790281 | Fear Itself | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fear%20Itself | Fear Itself
self", a 1999 episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- "Fear Itself" ("The 4400"), a 2007 episode of "The 4400"
- "Fear Itself" ("K-9"), an episode of "K-9"
# Literature.
- "Fear Itself" (Doctor Who novel), a 2005 "Doctor Who" novel by Nick Wallace
- "Fear Itself" (Batman novel), a 2007 novel by Michael... | 45,488 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call-sign was (from the Yodo River).
# History.
The 4th Division was formed in Osaka City in January 1871 as the , one of six regional commands created in the fledgling Imperial... | 45,489 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
the "4th division" landed on Liaodong Peninsula and performed security duties as part of army reserve, though its 7th Mixed Brigade was sent to northern Formosa in September 1895 during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, and helped to pacify the Kapsulan (Yilan) district.
During the... | 45,490 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
1937, the 4th Division came under the command of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria. Actually departing Osaka 6 September 1937, and landing in Daegu 12 September 1937. It participated in Central Hubei Operation, Battle of South Henan, and (attacking from northern Anlu). It was transfer... | 45,491 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
arriving in the Philippines to participate in the Battle of Bataan on 3 April 1942. The "4th division" also significantly contributed to Japanese efforts in the Battle of Corregidor 5 May 1942. After the Philippines Campaign (1941–42) ended 8 May 1942, the division was returned to ... | 45,492 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
14 January 1945, its final headquarters was in Lampang, Thailand.
The "4th division" started disbanding in June 1946. The soldiers were repatriated from Bangkok back to the Japanese ports of Uraga and Kagoshima. Last sub-unit, a field hospital, departed Bangkok 4 June 1946 and arr... | 45,493 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
surroundings could be made into a public park. In 1940, the headquarters moved again, this time to Hōkoku Shrine (Osaka) area.
The divisional arsenal in Osaka detonated 14 August 1945 due to Allied bombing, resulting in light damage to the headquarters buildings. As of 2013, the h... | 45,494 |
8790067 | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4th%20Division%20(Imperial%20Japanese%20Army) | 4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
t damage to the headquarters buildings. As of 2013, the headquarters building remained as a war memorial within the Osaka Castle Park.
Noted commanders in the history of the 4th Division have included Takashima Tomonosuke, Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Ichinohe Hyoe, Abe Nobuyuk... | 45,495 |
8790185 | Suzanne Doucet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne%20Doucet | Suzanne Doucet
Suzanne Doucet
Suzanne Doucet (born 27 August 1944, Tübingen, Germany) is an award winning German composer and producer. She has been living and working in the USA since 1983.
# Biography.
She went to school in Meersburg am Bodensee, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Hamburg, Munich (college) and Paris(Universit... | 45,496 |
8790185 | Suzanne Doucet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne%20Doucet | Suzanne Doucet
her career in the entertainment industry she worked as a designer and painter in Ascona (Switzerland). She moved to Munich in 1962 and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1963. She played the leading part in a theater comedy "Die Türen knallen" in Stuttgart in 1963 and was discovered by the record compan... | 45,497 |
8790185 | Suzanne Doucet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne%20Doucet | Suzanne Doucet
industry have provided her with incomparable knowledge, experience and contacts. Beyond being co-founder and CEO of Only New Age Music, Inc., and newagemusic.com, Suzanne is an international recording and performing artist whose background encompasses being a prime time TV "Pop Show" hostess (guests incl... | 45,498 |
8790185 | Suzanne Doucet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suzanne%20Doucet | Suzanne Doucet
in many TV plays and TV musicals with actors such as Thomas Fritsch, Hans Clarin, Marianne Hoppe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Ulli Lommel. She wrote songs for Udo Juergens, Wencke Myrre, Mirreille Matthieu, Margot Werner, Christian Bruhn (GEMA) and Abi Ofarim. She composed music for the TV play "Alle ha... | 45,499 |
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