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7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
entrance building to Markgrafendamm. In contrast to the other pedestrian bridge, it served mainly as a link between the urban areas on both sides and was outside the controlled access area of the station, so it was usable for travellers without tickets. During the Second World War it was destroyed with the ent... | 52,700 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
and is fully integrated with the roof. The steep pitched roof and the slated polygonal dome exhibit the influence of Art Nouveau. The water tower is now a symbol of Ostkreuz and a highly visible building. It is listed as a monument.
## Rail officials' house.
### Northern officials' residence (Sonntagstraße 3... | 52,701 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
authorities. After receiving no undertakings from Deutsche Bahn to protect it, the heritage protection authority adopted an order in March 2010 requiring measures to protect the building from the penetration of rain water and the effects of storms and vandalism. In November 2010, Deutsche Bahn began work for t... | 52,702 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
building, has been preserved to the south of the tracks next to the rectifier plant. It was built in 1900 and completed a small housing estate for railway officials, which had been built in 1881 but is no longer conserved. It was unused as of August 2018.
## Heritage listing.
The Ostkreuz station building co... | 52,703 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
is divided into the following 14 heritage items:
In the course of the reconstruction, the historic core of the station has been lost despite the preservation of listed buildings. Individual, stand-alone measures attempt to selectively mark this loss. Thus, the newly constructed canopies of platforms D and E a... | 52,704 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
building, although not part of the building ensembles described in the planning approval processes for the reconstruction, is a rectifying plant designed by Richard Brademann at the Markgrafendamm next to the Civil Servants' Residence South.
# Train services.
The station is served by the following service(s)... | 52,705 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
- Gesundbrunnen - Jungfernheide - Westend - Westkreuz - Innsbrucker Platz - Südkreuz - Hermannstraße - Treptower Park - Ostkreuz"
- Berlin S-Bahn services "Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Lichtenberg – Strausberg Nord"
- Berlin S-Bahn services "Potsdam – Wannsee – Westkreuz – Hauptba... | 52,706 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
Verkehrsbetriebe, stop at the entrance from Hauptstraße/Markgrafendamm.
## Surroundings.
There are several restaurants and pubs around Ostkreuz, mainly in Sonntagstraße, that make the area northwest of Ostkreuz a major entertainment destination in Friedrichshain. From 2000 to 2006, under the "URBAN II" initi... | 52,707 |
7379420 | Ostkreuz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostkreuz | Ostkreuz
s and pubs around Ostkreuz, mainly in Sonntagstraße, that make the area northwest of Ostkreuz a major entertainment destination in Friedrichshain. From 2000 to 2006, under the "URBAN II" initiative of the European Union, work was carried out in the Ostkreuz neighbourhood. This includes the transformation of wa... | 52,708 |
750687 | Bobby Curtola | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Curtola | Bobby Curtola
Bobby Curtola
Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM (April 17, 1943 – June 4, 2016) was a Canadian rock and roll singer and teen idol.
# History.
Curtola was born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada in 1943. He began performing at age 15 with a band called Bobby and the Bobcats, singing at high school assemblie... | 52,709 |
750687 | Bobby Curtola | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Curtola | Bobby Curtola
successful internationally, selling 2.5 million copies. Between 1960 and 1968 he had continual single and album releases on the Tartan label in Canada. The managers and main songwriters were brothers Dyer and Basil Hurdon. The Del-Fi label released some of those singles in the US. He wrote and performed t... | 52,710 |
750687 | Bobby Curtola | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Curtola | Bobby Curtola
attempt at updating his image, Curtola briefly adopted the billing Boby Curtola and released one album under this name before reverting to his original spelling.
During his career, the singer achieved 25 Canadian gold singles and 12 Canadian gold albums. In 1998, in recognition of his long service to the... | 52,711 |
750687 | Bobby Curtola | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Curtola | Bobby Curtola
a business entrepreneur, marketing a brand of tomato clam Caesar cocktail called SeaCzar for three years. Curtola founded companies that acquired hotel and truck stops throughout Canada, and in 1991 bid for ownership of the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was chief executive officer of Home Farms Technologies, a ... | 52,712 |
750687 | Bobby Curtola | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby%20Curtola | Bobby Curtola
n 2011, he received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto.
Bobby married Ava, his road manager’s daughter in Edmonton in 1975. They had two boys Christopher in 1977 and Michael in 1979 .
Curtola's partner, Karyn Rochford, died in a car accident in Nova Scotia on December 15, 2015.
Curtola had b... | 52,713 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
William H. Gray III
William Herbert Gray III (August 20, 1941 – July 1, 2013) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented from 1979 to 1991. He also served as chairman of the House Committee on the Budget from 1985 to 1989 and House Majority Whip from 1989 to 1991.... | 52,714 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
in Washington D.C.
# Early life.
Gray was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but grew up in St. Augustine, Florida, where his father was president of Florida Normal and Industrial Institute (later renamed Florida Memorial University), and later in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he graduated f... | 52,715 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives in 1978. He represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1978 until his resignation on September 11, 1991. He was th... | 52,716 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
Act of 1986 (H.R. 4868).
Gray resigned unexpectedly from Congress in 1991 to serve as president of the United Negro College Fund from 1991 to 2004. The move was considered surprising and prompted speculation that it may have been connected with an investigation into alleged campaign finance violati... | 52,717 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
a grand jury investigation into his church's financial dealings. It was reported that Gray agreed not run in the special election and in return Thornburgh would drop the investigations. Thornburgh resigned as Attorney General and went on to run himself, but lost in an upset to Democrat Harris Woffor... | 52,718 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
he was also a businessman who has been a director at Dell from 2000. Gray was a director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Prudential Financial Inc., Rockwell International Corporation, Visteon Corporation and Pfizer. He retired from Bright Hope Baptist Church in 2007 and was succeeded by Kevin R. Johnson... | 52,719 |
750683 | William H. Gray III | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20H.%20Gray%20III | William H. Gray III
mber of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Gray died on July 1, 2013, in London, while attending the Wimbledon tennis tournament with his son Andrew. Gray's death came suddenly and no cause of death has been given. He was 71.
# Awards and honors.
In 1997 he received the Four Freedom Award for the Freedom... | 52,720 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
Bo Brady and Hope Williams
Beauregard "Bo" Brady and Hope Williams Brady are fictional characters and the signature supercouple on the American daytime drama "Days of Our Lives". Bo is portrayed by Peter Reckell and Hope is portrayed by Kristian Alfonso. On internet message boards, the coupl... | 52,721 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
of the most momentous occasions in the couple's history involved the moment when Bo kidnapped Hope from her wedding to sly politician Larry Welch. Bo and Hope rode off together on Bo's motorcycle, while Bo's friend Howie stood in for the bride. Unfortunately, Larry's goons kidnapped Hope and ... | 52,722 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
and reaffirmed that her love was for him. Eventually Bo and Hope made love in an old plantation in New Orleans and shortly thereafter Hope was able to escape from Larry's clutches (though he would seek revenge in 2002).
Bo and Hope are also known for their adventures. From England to New Yor... | 52,723 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
daughter, Georgia. They are the parents of Shawn-Douglas Brady, Zack Brady and Ciara Brady. Bo Brady and Billie Reed's daughter, Georgia, whom they believed to be stillborn, was found to be alive as Salem's teenage bad girl Chelsea Brady.
The supercouple's strength was tested with the loss o... | 52,724 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
against Chelsea disappearing, the two seemed to be reconnecting. However, when new evidence was found exonerating Patrick, Hope couldn't believe she allowed Bo to pit her against Patrick.
Hope found out she was pregnant, with what she thought was Patrick's child; the baby was actually Bo's a... | 52,725 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
Patrick then told Bo that he had bribed Hope's doctor into changing the test results to show that he was the father when Bo really was! Patrick went to jail and Bo and Hope went to the hospital with their "new miracle."
Bo and Hope currently live together with their new born daughter Ciara B... | 52,726 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
in March 2008, in which Chelsea saved his life by donating part of her pancreas, Bo started planning a surprise for Hope. On August 7, 2008, Bo and Hope renewed their vows in front of family and friends. Hope got a new wedding ring, since she threw the other one in the ocean in 2006 in a fit ... | 52,727 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
2012; however, with portrayer Peter Reckell vacating the role earlier in the year, Bo has been reverted to an offscreen character, only being mentioned verbally by family and friends now.
Hope divorced Bo in September 2014, after not hearing from him for many months.
In November 2015, in ce... | 52,728 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
tumor and didn't have much time to live. On November 20, 2015, Bo & Hope spent time in the park where they first met; Bo went pale and died in Hope's arms. It started snowing, making the vision from Caroline to be true.
# Cultural impact.
The romantic pairing of Bo Brady and Hope Williams w... | 52,729 |
750702 | Bo Brady and Hope Williams | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bo%20Brady%20and%20Hope%20Williams | Bo Brady and Hope Williams
and Hope episodes. "Entertainment Weekly" calls them one of the greatest supercouples.
In May 2009 Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell were invited to be international guests at the Australian Logie awards
Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell are the face of Avon's Blue Rush perfume advertisin... | 52,730 |
750709 | Seth Carlo Chandler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seth%20Carlo%20Chandler | Seth Carlo Chandler
Seth Carlo Chandler
Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (September 16, 1846 – December 31, 1913) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Seth Carlo and Mary (née Cheever) Chandler. During his last year in high school he performed mathematical computations for Benjamin Peirce, of t... | 52,731 |
750709 | Seth Carlo Chandler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seth%20Carlo%20Chandler | Seth Carlo Chandler
College Observatory.
Chandler is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades.
Chandler also made contributions to other areas of astronomy, including variable stars. He independently co-discovered the nova T Coro... | 52,732 |
750709 | Seth Carlo Chandler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seth%20Carlo%20Chandler | Seth Carlo Chandler
spanned nearly three decades.
Chandler also made contributions to other areas of astronomy, including variable stars. He independently co-discovered the nova T Coronae Borealis, improved the estimate of the constant of aberration, and computed the orbital parameters of asteroids and comets.
Chandl... | 52,733 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
Sikelgaita
Sikelgaita (also "Sichelgaita" or "Sigelgaita") (1040 – 16 April 1090) was a Lombard princess, the daughter of Guaimar IV, Prince of Salerno, and second wife of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia. She commanded troops in her own right.
She married Robert in 1058, after Robert divorced his first wif... | 52,734 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
between her brother Gisulf II of Salerno and husband when their relations went sour, but her pleas went unheeded and she accepted her brother's lot in the war with Guiscard (1078).
Sikelgaita frequently accompanied Robert on his conquests. She conducted the siege of Trani (1080) while Robert moved against T... | 52,735 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
with a large family, it is unlikely that she was a combatant although obviously close to the action, probably in a sort of command post. According to the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena, she was "like another Pallas, if not a second Athena," and, in the "Alexiad", Anna attributes to her a quote from the "Il... | 52,736 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
well throughout their married life. Sikelgaita donated a large amount of silver for her health while she was ill on another occasion.
Supposedly, she tried to poison Robert's son Bohemond by his first wife, although the two eventually came to an agreement by which her son Roger Borsa was allowed to succeed ... | 52,737 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
Scalio (died 1110)
- Sibilla (Sybil), married Ebles II, Count of Roucy
- Mabillia (Mabel) of Apulia, married William de Grandmesnil
- Heria, married Hugh V, Count of Maine
- Olympias, betrothed to Constantine Doukas, son of Michael VII Ducas and Maria Bagrationi, in 1074
# Sources.
- Valerie Eads, "Sic... | 52,738 |
750695 | Sikelgaita | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sikelgaita | Sikelgaita
"The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest". 2000.
- Loud, Graham A. "Coinage, Wealth and Plunder in the Age of Robert Guiscard." "The English Historical Review", Vol. 114, No. 458. (Sep., 1999), pp 815–843.
- Bloch, Herbert. "Monte Cassino, Byzantium, and the West in the Earlier M... | 52,739 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
Dance pad
A dance pad, also known as a dance mat or dance platform, is a flat electronic game controller used for input in dance games. Most dance pads are divided into a 3×3 matrix of square panels for the player to stand on, with some or all of the panels corresponding to directions or actions within the g... | 52,740 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
(often flexible) plastic pads. These home pads are specifically made for systems such as the GameCube, Wii, Dreamcast (Japan only), PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, but can also be used in computer simulators such as "StepMania" through the use of special adapters.
# Types.
## Soft.
"Soft" pads are thi... | 52,741 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
they are quite suitable. Manufacturers of soft pads include Konami, BNSUSA, RedOctane, Intec, Mad Catz (Beat Pad), MyMyBox, Naki International, and Nintendo (Action Pad). OEM manufacturers include Topway (manufacturer of RedOctane pads), Futime, and many others.
Some soft pads contain stiff foam inserts of t... | 52,742 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
a player's feet, so as to help keep him centered on the pad. These pads generally cost between $40 and $100.
It is also possible to modify a pad by attaching it to a hard surface and optionally covering it with clear material; this can increase pad life and keep it from slipping around.
## Hard.
"Hard" pad... | 52,743 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
pads include DDRgame, Cobalt Flux, MyMyBox, Brown Box, RedOctane (ceased production as of February 2010 due to company termination) and Naki International.
Hard pads are used in all arcade versions of music games that employ dance pads, and often serve as the "nec plus ultra" for DIY Gamers that attempt to c... | 52,744 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
pad. The advantages of a solid state design is that they do not require pressure to activate, eliminating moving parts that might break down and keeping dirt from getting into the mechanism.
## Caveats.
Problems are often encountered when attempting to use a PlayStation pad with a computer simulator. Most P... | 52,745 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
work on a PC, to date, the adapters will not work with consoles that have built in USB ports such as the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.
Purchasers of home pads should be aware of the number and arrangement of active arrow panels that are required by the game(s) they want to play. Although most commercial pa... | 52,746 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
glass or polycarbonate) found at local hardware stores), do-it-yourselfers are able to construct a pad that is often much more durable and more authentic-feeling than commercially built hard pads. Some homebrew pads have extra features such as additional arrows (for playing Pump It Up or DDR Solo), menu switc... | 52,747 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
depends on the system that the pad is intended to be played with (GameCube, PlayStation, Xbox, or PC).
Homebrew pads use a variety of technologies for designing the arrows that the player is supposed to step on. The most common design uses metal contacts that sandwich together when the player steps on the pa... | 52,748 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
soft pads. This effectively cures wrinkling and makes the pad more durable to use while wearing shoes.
# Educational use.
Systems for multiple simultaneous players were introduced into UK schools in 2007 by Cyber coach. Such systems can connect up to 64 dance pads at any one time without wires. The systems ... | 52,749 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
historical buildings.
# Other games.
Some games that can be played with dance pads do not involve pressing the arrow buttons on the pad to keep with the rhythm of a song:
- Many games developed for the NES Power Pad
- Breakthrough Gaming Presents: Axel
- The
- Kraft Rocking the Boat
- Kraft Soccer Stri... | 52,750 |
750700 | Dance pad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance%20pad | Dance pad
es.
Some games that can be played with dance pads do not involve pressing the arrow buttons on the pad to keep with the rhythm of a song:
- Many games developed for the NES Power Pad
- Breakthrough Gaming Presents: Axel
- The
- Kraft Rocking the Boat
- Kraft Soccer Striker
- Kraft Virtual Dojo
- Exult... | 52,751 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
Geometrodynamics
In theoretical physics, geometrodynamics is an attempt to describe spacetime and associated phenomena completely in terms of geometry. Technically, its goal is to unify the fundamental forces and reformulate general relativity as a configuration space of three-metrics, modulo three-di... | 52,752 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
and Misner (ADM formalism) around 1960. In this reformulation, spacetimes are sliced up into "spatial hyperslices" in a rather arbitrary fashion (citation for 'arbitrary' needed), and the vacuum Einstein field equation is reformulated as an "evolution equation" describing how, given the geometry of an ... | 52,753 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
an even more fundamental way than the ADM reformulation of general relativity with a dynamic geometry whose curvature changes with time. It attempts to realize three concepts:
- mass without mass
- charge without charge
- field without field.
He wanted to lay the foundation for quantum gravity and ... | 52,754 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
that geons could affect test particles much like a massive object, hence "mass without mass".
Wheeler was also much intrigued by the fact that the (nonspinning) point-mass solution of general relativity, the Schwarzschild vacuum, has the nature of a wormhole. Similarly, in the case of a charged partic... | 52,755 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
the electromagnetic field tensor from the electromagnetic contribution to the stress–energy tensor, which in general relativity is directly coupled to spacetime curvature; Wheeler and Misner developed this into the so-called "already-unified field theory" which partially unifies gravitation and electro... | 52,756 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
might arise as a kind of "averaging" over very complicated topological phenomena at very small scales, the so-called spacetime foam. This would realize geometrical intuition suggested by quantum gravity, or "field without field".
These ideas captured the imagination of many physicists, even though Whe... | 52,757 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
some of Descartes' and Spinoza's ideas about the nature of space.
# Modern notions of geometrodynamics.
More recently, Christopher Isham, Jeremy Butterfield, and their students have continued to develop "quantum geometrodynamics" to take account of recent work toward a quantum theory of gravity and f... | 52,758 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
Clifford and Weyl and found a more concrete realization in the wormholes of Wheeler characterized by the Euler-Poincaré invariant. They result from attaching handles to black holes.
Observationally, Einstein's general relativity (GR) is rather well established for the solar system and double pulsars. ... | 52,759 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
merely as a derived concept.
Consequently, the primordial action in four dimensions should be constructed from a metric-free topological action such as the Pontryagin invariant of the corresponding gauge connection. Similarly as in the Yang–Mills theory, a quantization can be achieved by amending the ... | 52,760 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
the curvature-squared 'Yang-Mielke theory' of gravity, proposed in its affine form already by Weyl 1919 and by Yang in 1974. However, these exact solutions exhibit a 'vacuum degeneracy'. One needs to modify the double duality of the curvature via scale breaking terms, in order to retain Einstein's equa... | 52,761 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
of gravity. After applying spontaneous symmetry breaking to the corresponding topological BF theory, again Einstein spaces emerge with a tiny cosmological constant related to the scale of symmetry breaking. Here the 'background' metric is induced via a Higgs-like mechanism. The finiteness of such a def... | 52,762 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
44" for spacetime foam.
- online version (subscription required)
- J. Wheeler(1960) "Curved empty space as the building material of the physical world: an assessment", in Ernest Nagel (1962) "Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science", Stanford University Press.
- online version (subscription re... | 52,763 |
750712 | Geometrodynamics | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geometrodynamics | Geometrodynamics
on (subscription required)
- Mielke, Eckehard W. (2010, July 15). Einsteinian gravity from a topological action. SciTopics. Retrieved January 17, 2012, from http://www.scitopics.com/Einsteinian_gravity_from_a_topological_action.html
# Further reading.
- Grünbaum, Adolf (1973): "Geometrodynamics and ... | 52,764 |
750751 | Crotched Mountain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crotched%20Mountain | Crotched Mountain
Crotched Mountain
Crotched Mountain is a small mountain in western Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in the United States. The summit of the mountain is in the town of Francestown, while the western slopes of the mountain rise in the town of Bennington, and a long southern ridge of the mountain is ... | 52,765 |
750751 | Crotched Mountain | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crotched%20Mountain | Crotched Mountain
Bennington, and a long southern ridge of the mountain is in Greenfield. The mountain was named for its appearance. Early settlers thought its V-shaped peaks resembled the fork or "crotch" of a tree.
The Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride occupies the northern slopes of the mountain. It has 25 trails, 5 cha... | 52,766 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
Stuart Little 2
Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American family comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff. It is the sequel to 1999's "Stuart Little", itself loosely based on the original 1945 children's book by E. B. White, and stars Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Jonathan Lipnicki, alongside the voices of Michael... | 52,767 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
sequel entitled "" in 2005. However, unlike the previous two films, which were hybrids of live action and animation, the third one was entirely animated.
# Plot.
Three years after the first film, Stuart Little questions his abilities following a disastrous soccer match alongside his brother George, wh... | 52,768 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
into Stuart's roadster on his way home from school. Stuart takes her home and introduces her to the Little family, where he invites Margalo to stay with them for a while, to which she accepts. However, Margalo is secretly assisting her peregrine falcon father, Falcon, to steal valuables from households ... | 52,769 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
reluctantly complies.
When the Littles discover that the ring is missing, they think it has fallen down their kitchen sink drain. Stuart offers to be lowered down the drain on a string to get it, but the string breaks while he is down the drain. A guilt-stricken Margalo saves him, then leaves the Littl... | 52,770 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
lives at the top of the Pishkin Building. Despite revealing to Stuart that Margalo works for him, faked being injured, and stole his mother's ring, Stuart does not believe him. Annoyed by Stuart's skepticism, Falcon reveals his mother's ring. Having overheard Falcon's outburst, Margalo appears and reass... | 52,771 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
his beak, and as a result, Stuart only succeeds in provoking Falcon to the point of trying to kill Stuart by dropping him from the top of the building, only for Stuart to land in a passing garbage truck and ultimately get knocked unconscious upon impact, even though Falcon remains seemingly unaware of S... | 52,772 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
and cobbles it together with various pieces of junk, and uses it to rescue Margalo and Snowbell. Meanwhile, the Littles discover that George has been lying about Stuart's whereabouts and demand that George either reveal where he is, or face the consequences. George tries not to break his promise, but wh... | 52,773 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
him immediately, but Margalo firms her resolve and attempts to flee. Just as Falcon catches up, Stuart catches Margalo in his plane, enraging Falcon to the point of trying to focus on killing Stuart first.
The Littles follow them by the New York City Taxi as Stuart and Margalo fly through Central Park,... | 52,774 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
sky and lands in a trash can where Monty is searching for food. This is meant to imply that Monty ate him.
Sometime later, Margalo says goodbye to the Littles and leaves to migrate south for the winter. After this, Martha, George and Stuart's new infant sister, says her first words, "Bye-bye Birdie", m... | 52,775 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
who befriends Stuart and Falcon's daughter.
- James Woods as the voice of Falcon, Margalo's evil father.
- Geena Davis as Eleanor Little, Stuart, Martha, and George's mother, who is overprotective of Stuart.
- Hugh Laurie as Frederick Little, Stuart, Martha, and George's father and Eleanor's husband.... | 52,776 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
John Jefferies as Will Powell, George's friend and classmate.
- Jim Doughan as Stuart and George's soccer coach. Doughan previously voiced Lucky and played the role of Detective Allen alongside Jon Polito who played Detective Sherman in "Stuart Little".
- Brad Garrett as Rob, a plumber called to find ... | 52,777 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
Little 2" was originally released on VHS and a special edition DVD on December 10, 2002 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. A Blu-ray/DVD combo pack was released on June 28, 2011 alongside the first film.
# Reception.
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 81% approval rating based on reviews from 122 crit... | 52,778 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
Falcon, respectively, as well as the characters' computer animation: "The animated characters engage in such natural movements and, more important, exude such subtle emotional expression that they mesh seamlessly with their live-action counterparts." Tom Shen of the "Chicago Reader", described the film ... | 52,779 |
750694 | Stuart Little 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuart%20Little%202 | Stuart Little 2
, more important, exude such subtle emotional expression that they mesh seamlessly with their live-action counterparts." Tom Shen of the "Chicago Reader", described the film as "fairly formulaic", but praised its jokes as "hilarious", especially those coming from the character of Snowbell, the Littles' ... | 52,780 |
750792 | Natural world | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Natural%20world | Natural world
Natural world
Natural world may refer to the following:
- The natural world, consisting of biological life and surrounding environment
- Biosphere
- Natural environment
- "Natural World" (TV series), a BBC wildlife documentary | 52,781 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
Architects Registration Board
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the statutory body for the registration of architects in the United Kingdom. It operates under the Architects Act 1997 as , a consolidating Act. It began under the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931 which gave it th... | 52,782 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
Act by persons on their becoming registered or for their retention on the Register. The Board is required to pay into the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom any sum paid under a penalty order which its Professional Conduct Committee has made under Part III of the Act (in conduct cases... | 52,783 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
of admitting persons to the Register or placing them on the list of visiting EU architects and, in some instances, causing matters concerning conduct and competence to be investigated.
# Prescribing qualifications.
As the UK "competent authority" for the purpose of Article 46 of the Mutu... | 52,784 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of ...).
In the Architects Act 1997 (as amended) education is referred to in Part II which is headed "Registration etc.", not in Part III which is headed "Discipline". References ... | 52,785 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
against registered persons which have been formally reported or referred to it in accordance with the Architects Act 1997 (as amended) and the Rules which the Board is authorised to make.
The Act states explicitly that failure to comply with the provisions of the code of professional cond... | 52,786 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
Code of Professional Conduct under the legislation then in force (the architect was practising an estate agent's business as well as his own), when the registration body was constituted under the name the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom, Mr Justice Devlin ruled: "It ... | 52,787 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
of the council" [sic] to the Institute of Chartered Surveyors recognising the fact that there was nothing in a Bill, which the council was then promoting (and which subsequently became the Architects Registration Act, 1938), to interfere with the activities of registered architects.
# The... | 52,788 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
of superintending or supervising the building works of local authorities (for housing and other projects), rather than to persons professionally qualified only as municipal or other engineers. A significant indicator for this inference is in section 1 (1) of the 1938 act.
By the 1970s tha... | 52,789 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
qualifications in favour of equal standards across borders, in furtherance of the single market policy.
# Inspection of the Register.
In connection with the protection of title and the enforcement provisions, the originating and later legislation imposed on the registration body (now the... | 52,790 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
legislation and the Board's previous practice has impeded the continuation of the series for retention (on the part of the British Architectural Library or others) as annual volumes for reference. The current website offers only a downloadable pdf format.
For other more limited purposes a... | 52,791 |
750744 | Architects Registration Board | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Architects%20Registration%20Board | Architects Registration Board
earched online at a website maintained by the registration body. The information held on this version of the Register could help members of the public, who wish to find an architect to meet their needs, to locate a practitioner who has registered status and is conveniently situated.
# Ext... | 52,792 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
Zwentibold
Zwentibold ("Zventibold", "Swentiboldo", "Sventibaldo", "Sanderbald"; – 13 August 900), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Arnulf. In 895, his father, then king of East Francia, granted him the Kingdom of Lotharingia, which he ruled until his death. After his... | 52,793 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
of King Louis. After the king's death in 876, Carloman ruled over the East Frankish territory of Bavaria and ceded the adjacent marches of Pannonia and Carinthia (former Carantania) to his son Arnulf. In 887 Arnulf succeeded the incapable King Charles the Fat as King of East Francia.
Name "Zwentibold" was g... | 52,794 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
out for his succession in East Francia. According to the 870 Treaty of Meerssen and the 880 Treaty of Ribemont, the Lotharingian kingdom of former Middle Francia had fallen to the East Frankish realm. When in 893 King Arnulf's wife Ota gave birth to his legitimate son and successor Louis the Child, Zwentibol... | 52,795 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
Wido's capital, Pavia, and besieged it unsuccessfully, finally abandoning the siege. According to Liutprand of Cremona, Zwentibold accepted money from Wido in order to leave, although it is not clear if it was in the form of a personal bribe or a tribute to his father. Zwentibold's retreat was nonetheless se... | 52,796 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
local nobility. As he helped the common population too much, he began to be hated in a few years. He was fighting unruly nobles when his father Arnulf died in 899 and the legitimate son Louis the Child became king of East Francia at the age of six.
## Death.
Zwentibold attempted to take advantage of the su... | 52,797 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
also ruled over Lotharingia. However, under his reign the East Frankish realm disintegrated and from 903 Zwentibold's kingdom was administered by the Lahngau Count Gebhard, a scion of the Conradine dynasty, who received the title of a Duke of Lorraine.
# Family.
Zwentibold was named after his godfather, Ki... | 52,798 |
750722 | Zwentibold | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zwentibold | Zwentibold
ng Svatopluk I of Great Moravia (Zwentibold being a Frankish transcription of Svatopluk). In 897, he married Oda, a daughter of Duke Otto I of Saxony. His mortal remains are buried at Susteren Abbey. He had three daughters, who are mentioned in the "Gesta episcoporum Leodensium":
- Benedetta (c.898-?), abbe... | 52,799 |
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