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750807 | Brio (company) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brio%20(company) | Brio (company)
ks of financial problems concerning the company's liquidity. On the 11th of March 2009 the company stated "BRIO financially reconstructed – shareholders’ equity strengthened by more than SEK 300 million".
BRIO was acquired by the Ravensburger Group on January 8, 2015.
# External links.
- BRIO corporat... | 52,900 |
750842 | Microchip revolution | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microchip%20revolution | Microchip revolution
Microchip revolution
The microchip revolution had its beginnings with the inventions of integrated circuit (IC) and the microprocessor.
This in turn caused the much broader digital revolution, one of the most significant occurrences in the history of humankind. | 52,901 |
750892 | ICG | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ICG | ICG
ICG
ICG may refer to
- ICG Communications
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
- Impedance cardiography, a hemorheology technique for detecting the properties of the blood flow in the thorax.
- Indian Coast Guard
- Icelandic Coast Guard
- Indocyanine green
- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of... | 52,902 |
750892 | ICG | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ICG | ICG
pital firm based in London.
- International Children's Games, an International Olympic Committee-sanctioned sport event held every year.
- International Coal Group
- International Crisis Group, a non-profit organisation.
- Internet Capital Group
- Inversive congruential generator
- Intra-character gap (or int... | 52,903 |
750854 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens%20SD-100%20and%20SD-160 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
The SD-100 and SD-160 are light rail tram vehicles manufactured by Siemens. The SD-100 uses direct current motors, while the SD-160 model features alternating current motors. Both models are suited for passenger loading at street, and at high-platform, levels. Both m... | 52,904 |
750854 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens%20SD-100%20and%20SD-160 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
District, located in Denver, Colorado, became the launch customer when it placed an order in 1992. Service began with the light rail system's opening in 1994.
Sometime in 1993, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System ordered 52 SD-100 cars for extensions to Santee and Mission Valley, these ... | 52,905 |
750854 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens%20SD-100%20and%20SD-160 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
cars with a new front end that resembles the S70. These were the last ones built.
# Technical details.
The SD-160's dimensions are by by and can be joined together to form trains of up to six cars in length. It is powered by four AC motors which provide a maximum of 580 kW and a maximum spee... | 52,906 |
750854 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens%20SD-100%20and%20SD-160 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
length is still less than , allowing three vehicles to be combined and still be under the maximum length of a German streetcar train assembly. Each vehicle also features an onboard closed-circuit TV security camera system for increased passenger safety. Unlike the Siemens SD-100, the Siemens S... | 52,907 |
750854 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens%20SD-100%20and%20SD-160 | Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
SD-160 does not use the bi-folded doors, instead using sliding doors similar to designs featured on the Siemens S70. In addition, both can be used together in mixed trains consisting of SD-100s and SD-160s. The new, streetcar-length S70 cars ordered for San Diego are designed to be compatible ... | 52,908 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
Fiat Bravo and Brava
The Fiat Bravo and Fiat Brava (Type 182) are small family cars produced by the Italian automaker Fiat from 1995 to 2001. They were effectively two versions of the same car, the Bravo a three door hatchback, and the Brava a five door fastback. The Bravo name was revived in Janu... | 52,909 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
being tuned for more precise handling, whilst the Brava was tuned for better comfort.
Even the interior trim and many of the body colours were unique to either one version or the other. Both cars had a two star safety rating on EuroNCAP. The cars came with all new engines, the base model using a 1... | 52,910 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
both were 1.9 L four cylinder units, one producing and the other making . The Bravo/Brava was voted European Car of the Year on its launch.
In August 1996, the Bravo/Brava chassis spawned saloon and estate versions, badged Fiat Marea, a car which was aimed at Ford Mondeo and Opel/Vauxhall Vectra b... | 52,911 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
Choice". Fiat's Italian adverts said "Fiat Bravo. Fiat Brava. La Scelta." which roughly translates to "Fiat Bravo. Fiat Brava. The Choice", hinting to the fact that they're very similar cars but you can select between a sporty three door hatchback or a practical five door fastback.
The Bravo and B... | 52,912 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
push the design to the limit, break the rules and discover every angle of the car, distinguishing it from the competitors.
Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the Fiat Bravo and Brava in 1995, on the old format of "Top Gear", stating that "This is how an ordinary car can look like, if you put a bit of effort... | 52,913 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
in 1999.
The 1.4L 12v engine was dropped in favour of the 1.2 16v unit from the Fiat Punto, the 2.0L 20V engine of the HGT model gained VVT and VIS systems upping the power from to , the dashboard was redesigned and improved across all trim levels, the grilles of the cars were redesigned, the A/C ... | 52,914 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
introduced in 1997 for both cars, with only 1,100 pieces, celebrating Fiat's win of "Car of the Year 1996" for the Bravo/Brava duo, for the Western Europe market. It was a 1.6 16v Sx version, with metallic paint, electrically adjustable and heated mirrors, fog lights, front passenger airbag, ABS an... | 52,915 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
mirrors, fog lights, CD Player and remote central locking.
- Limited Edition: onwards from 2000, for the Hungarian market. Available for the 1.2 16V and 1.6 16V versions, it featured metallic paint, electrically adjustable and heated mirrors, fog lights, a passenger airbag and automatic A/C. The 1... | 52,916 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
rear lights (Bravo), "Steel" logo in the C column, electrically adjustable and heated mirrors, fog lights, passenger airbag, automatic A/C, CD Player, GT's steering wheel and shift knob wrapped in leather, two tone black/blue seats, white GT cluster and silver gt console and dash trim.
- Suite: av... | 52,917 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, silver center console and dash trim and a full leather interior in cream, dark brown, dark blue or black.
- Trofeo: available only for the 1.2 Bravo Sx, for Western European markets, for 2000. Similar to the "Formula", it featured metallic Gray/Blue/Black/Spr... | 52,918 |
750829 | Fiat Bravo and Brava | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiat%20Bravo%20and%20Brava | Fiat Bravo and Brava
knob and steering wheel, white GT's cluster, silver center console and dash trim, blue/black two tone seats and door trim.
- Yellow: Hungarian 1.2 16v Sx Bravo, featuring the GT's alloy wheels, electrically adjustable and heated mirrors, fog lights and only available in a distinct yellow.
# HGT A... | 52,919 |
750885 | François-Marie, comte de Broglie | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=François-Marie,%20comte%20de%20Broglie | François-Marie, comte de Broglie
François-Marie, comte de Broglie
François-Marie, comte de Broglie and comte de Revel (1 November 16112 July 1656) was a prominent soldier and commander in the Thirty Years' War. Born in Piedmont, he was originally known as Francesco-Maria di Broglia, conte di Revel before becoming natu... | 52,920 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Karla Homolka
Karla Leanne Homolka (born May 4, 1970), also known as Leanne Teale, is a Canadian serial killer who, with her first husband Paul Bernardo, raped and murdered at least three minors. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in th... | 52,921 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
stated to investigators that Bernardo had abused her and that she had been an unwilling accomplice to the murders. As a result, she struck a deal with prosecutors for a reduced prison sentence of 12 years in exchange for a guilty plea to the charge of manslaughter. Homolka scored 5/40 on the Psychopathy C... | 52,922 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
prison in 2005.
Following her release from prison, she settled in the province of Quebec, where she married again. She briefly lived in the Antilles and Guadeloupe but by 2014 was back in Canada and living in Quebec.
# Victims.
During the summer of 1990, according to Karla, Bernardo became attracted to... | 52,923 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
later stole the anesthetic agent halothane from the Martindale Veterinarian Clinic where she worked. On December 23, 1990, after a Homolka family Christmas party, Bernardo and Karla Homolka drugged Tammy Homolka with the animal tranquilizers. Bernardo and Karla Homolka raped Tammy while she was unconsciou... | 52,924 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Aftermath.
## Publication ban.
Citing the need to protect Bernardo's right to a fair trial, a publication ban was imposed on Homolka's preliminary inquiry.
The Crown had applied for the ban imposed on July 5, 1993, by Mr. Justice Francis Kovacs of the Ontario Court (General Division). Homolka, through ... | 52,925 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
nullified the court's order, however; as did proximity to the Canada–US border, since a publication ban by an Ontario Court cannot apply in New York, Michigan, or anywhere else outside of Ontario. American journalists cited the First Amendment in editorials and published details of Homolka's testimony, wh... | 52,926 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
together with border radio and television stations, reported details gleaned from sources at Homolka's trial. The syndicated series "A Current Affair" aired two programs on the crimes. Canadians bootlegged copies of "The Buffalo Evening News" across the border, prompting orders to the Niagara Regional Pol... | 52,927 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
disobeying a lawful court order.
## Plea bargain controversy.
Jamie Cameron, Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall, noted that "at the time of the Homolka trial, three features of the case worried and concerned the public. Little was known about the respective roles Homolka and Bernardo played in their actio... | 52,928 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
could be diminished and her credibility as a witness preserved."
# Trial.
## Arraignment.
On May 18, 1993, Homolka was arraigned on two counts of manslaughter. Bernardo was charged with two counts each of kidnapping, unlawful confinement, aggravated sexual assault and first-degree murder as well as one... | 52,929 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
showed itself also to be a potentially criminal matter, for they were withholding evidence. By October 1993, he and his law partners had studied over 4,000 documents from the Crown. Murray has said he was willing to hand over the tapes to the Crown if they had let him cross-examine Homolka in the anticipa... | 52,930 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
point, drugging an unconscious victim. In February 1994, Homolka divorced Bernardo.
During the summer of 1994, Murray had become concerned about serious ethical problems that had arisen in connection with the tapes and his continued representation of Bernardo. He consulted his own lawyer, Austin Cooper, ... | 52,931 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
through Cooper in September 1995.
On September 12, 1994, Cooper attended Bernardo's trial and advised Justice Patrick LeSage of the Ontario Court's General Division, lawyer John Rosen, who replaced Murray as Bernardo's defence counsel, and the prosecutors about what the law society had directed Murray to... | 52,932 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
had been Bernardo's willing accomplice. The tapes were not allowed to be shown to the spectators; only the audio portion was available to them. Moreover, Bernardo has always claimed that, while he raped and tortured Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, Homolka actually killed them.
After the videotapes had... | 52,933 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
reopen the case.
# Appeal and inquest.
Homolka's plea bargain had been offered before the contents of the videotapes were available for review. Anne McGillivray, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, explained the continuing public antagonism against Homolka: There was widespread bel... | 52,934 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
and Ken perfect-couple perfectmurderers [sic], sexy 'Killer Karla', the comic 'Karla's Web' featuring Homolka's psy confessions. "The gaze centres, always, on Homolka" (italics added)... That [Bernardo] would be incarcerated for his mortal lifespan seemed a foregone conclusion. Homolka, in the popular vie... | 52,935 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
into the conduct of the prosecutors who had made the plea bargain found their behaviour "professional and responsible" and the "resolution agreement" that they had established with Homolka "unassailable" under the Criminal Code. Judge Patrick T. Galligan, reporting to the Attorney General on the matter, i... | 52,936 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
depicting the torture and rape of Bernardo's and Homolka's victims were destroyed. The disposition of the tapes of Homolka watching and commenting on the tapes remains sealed.
# Prison.
After her 1995 testimony against Bernardo, when Homolka returned to Kingston's Prison For Women, her mother started to... | 52,937 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Shephard came into possession of copies of her application to transfer to the "Maison Thérèse-Casgrain", run by the Elizabeth Fry Society, and published the story noting the halfway house's proximity to local schools, hours before the Canadian courts issued a publication ban on the information. Homolka su... | 52,938 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
to explain." As Homolka proceeded through the Canadian prison system there were frequent flashes that illuminated this perception.
In Joliette, Homolka had a sexual affair with Lynda Véronneau, who was serving time for a series of armed robberies and who reoffended so that she could be sent back to Jolie... | 52,939 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
in 2000, Homolka told psychiatrist Robin Menzies that she did not consider the relationship to be homosexual, as Véronneau saw herself as a man and planned to undergo a sex operation in due course,' the psychiatrist wrote." Psychiatrist Louis Morisette, meanwhile, noted in his report that Homolka "was ash... | 52,940 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
co-worker and friend, Wendy Lutczyn, the "Toronto Sun" declared, "now believes Homolka's actions were those of a psychopath, not of an abused, controlled woman". Homolka, Lutczyn said, had promised "she would explain herself", yet though the women exchanged "a series of letters while Homolka was... waitin... | 52,941 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
family, she continued to blame Bernardo for all her misdeeds: "He wanted me to get sleeping pills from work... threatened me and physically and emotionally abused me when I refused... I tried so hard to save her." Tim Danson, lawyer for the victims' families, has said that she has never apologized to them... | 52,942 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
from Queen's. News of Homolka's self-improvement courses was greeted in the media with disdain: "Nothing has changed. Concepts of remorse, repentance, shame, responsibility and atonement have no place in the universe of Karla. Perhaps she simply lacks the moral gene," wrote another "Globe" columnist, Marg... | 52,943 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
than the true nature of the individual wearing the mask.
Dr. Graham Glancy, a forensic psychiatrist hired by Bernardo's chief defence lawyer, John Rosen, had offered an alternative theory to explain Homolka's behaviour, noted Williams in "Invisible Darkness", his first book on the case. "She appears to b... | 52,944 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
who had examined her and said she did not care "what conditions I would receive upon release. I would spend three hours a day standing on my head should that be required." Upon her release Homolka vigorously fought a string of conditions imposed upon her by a court (see Post-Prison, below).
Homolka parti... | 52,945 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
society. Various hearings over the years have left a mixture of opinions. If she posed any kind of danger, said Dr. Hubert Van Gijseghem, a forensic psychologist for Correctional Services Canada, it lay in the ominous but not unlikely possibility of her linking up with another sexual sadist like Bernardo.... | 52,946 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
haughty and irritable".
# Release.
Where other inmates might apply for parole at the first opportunity, Homolka refrained from doing so. "Because she was deemed a risk to reoffend, she was denied statutory release two-thirds of the way through her sentence," "Maclean's" reported in explaining what had e... | 52,947 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
it expressed concern that Homolka had begun corresponding with a convicted murderer whom she had met when they were both being held in different parts of a prison handling unit in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. As a result it decided to keep her in prison. "The Toronto Sun" reported that Homolka had had... | 52,948 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
spent $3,000 on her at Victoria's Secret. The NPB reprimanded Homolka: "you have secretly undertaken an emotional relationship with another inmate, and evidence gathered seems to indicate that this relationship rapidly became sexual," the panel stated. On December 6, 2001, only seven days before Homolka d... | 52,949 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Karla", published in 2005 by Les Éditions Voix Parallèles.
Homolka gave her the incentive to finish her schooling, Véronneau said. Véronneau, who identified as a man and was scheduled to undergo gender reassignment surgery, said Homolka "liked to be tied up, something that disturbed Véronneau, who was se... | 52,950 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
staying in Quebec, where language and cultural differences supposedly muted the media coverage of her case, and where she'll be less recognizable. Another rumour suggests she will flee overseas, restarting in a country where her case is unknown. Or sneak into the United States, using an illegal identity t... | 52,951 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Homolka may choose to try to live a quiet life in Quebec, where her crimes are not as well known as they are in English-speaking Canada," reported CTV in May 2005.
On June 2, 2005, the network said, "the Ontario Crown will ask a Quebec judge to impose conditions under Section 810 of Criminal Code on Homo... | 52,952 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
on their behalf] believes the families want the government to amend the Section."
A two-day hearing was held before Judge Jean R. Beaulieu in June 2005. He ruled that Homolka, upon her release on July 4, 2005, would still pose a risk to the public-at-large. As a result, using section 810.2 of the Crimina... | 52,953 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
had to give 72 hours' notice.
- 5. She could not contact Paul Bernardo, the families of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French or that of the woman known as Jane Doe (see above), or any violent criminals.
- 6. She was forbidden to be with people under the age of 16.
- 7. She was forbidden from consuming dru... | 52,954 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
because public hostility and her high profile might endanger her upon release.
On June 10, 2005, Senator Michel Biron declared that the conditions placed on Homolka were "totalitarian", according to an interview with CTV Newsnet. Two weeks later, Biron apologized.
Homolka then filed a request in the Que... | 52,955 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
entirely in French. Homolka told interviewer Joyce Napier that she chose Radio Canada because she had found it to be less sensationalist than the English-language media. She said that she had likewise found Quebec to be more accepting of her than Ontario. She affirmed that she would be living within the p... | 52,956 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
but off-screen, and was acknowledged by Homolka.
# Freedom and relocation to Guadeloupe; subsequent return to Canada.
The national media reported in July 2005 that Homolka had relocated to the Island of Montreal. On August 21, 2005, "Le Courrier du Sud" reported that she had been sighted in the South Sh... | 52,957 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Ontario's urging.
TVA reported on June 8, 2006 that Homolka's request to have her name changed was rejected. She had attempted to change her name legally to Emily Chiara Tremblay (Tremblay being one of the most common surnames in Quebec).
"Sun Media" reported in 2007 that Homolka had given birth to a ba... | 52,958 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
murder trial of Luka Magnotta heard that Karla Homolka is living in Quebec.
A poll of 9,521 voters concluded that 63.27% believed that the public had the right to know Homolka's location, 18.57% of voters believed that she deserved anonymity, and 18.16% believed that Homolka should be permitted to receiv... | 52,959 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
19, 2010, "The Vancouver Sun" reported that Homolka would be eligible to seek pardon for her crimes in the summer of 2010. Offenders convicted of first- or second-degree murder or with indeterminate sentences cannot apply for a pardon due to the fact that their sentences are for life, but Homolka was conv... | 52,960 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said an agreement had been reached between all federal parties to pass a bill that would prevent notorious offenders like Karla Homolka from obtaining a pardon.
# In popular culture.
In 1997, Lynn Crosbie, Canadian poet, novelist and cultural critic, published "Paul's Ca... | 52,961 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
To Kill".
In 2004, Quantum Entertainment released the film "Karla" (which had the working title "Deadly"), starring Laura Prepon as Homolka and Misha Collins as Bernardo. Tim Danson, lawyer for the French and Mahaffy families, was given a private screening, and announced that the families had no objectio... | 52,962 |
750710 | Karla Homolka | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karla%20Homolka | Karla Homolka
by Christal Films.
A 2000 episode of "Law & Order" (Season 10 Episode 15, "Fools For Love") was inspired by this case.
An episode of "Murder Made Me Famous" on the Reelz Television Network, airing December 8, 2018, chronicled the case.
# See also.
- List of serial killers by country
# Further reading... | 52,963 |
750845 | Little San Bernardino Mountains | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little%20San%20Bernardino%20Mountains | Little San Bernardino Mountains
Little San Bernardino Mountains
The Little San Bernardino Mountains are a short mountain range of the Transverse Ranges, located in southern California in the United States. They extend for approximately southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains through San Bernardino and Riverside Co... | 52,964 |
750845 | Little San Bernardino Mountains | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little%20San%20Bernardino%20Mountains | Little San Bernardino Mountains
elevation .
# Habitats.
Much of the eastern end of the range is within Joshua Tree National Park. Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is also located in the Little San Bernardino Mountains. The oasis here contains one of the ten largest cottonwood ("Populus fremontii") and red willow ("Salix l... | 52,965 |
750845 | Little San Bernardino Mountains | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little%20San%20Bernardino%20Mountains | Little San Bernardino Mountains
end of the range is within Joshua Tree National Park. Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is also located in the Little San Bernardino Mountains. The oasis here contains one of the ten largest cottonwood ("Populus fremontii") and red willow ("Salix laevigata") Riparian zone habitats in Californi... | 52,966 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
Bajo Nuevo Bank
Bajo Nuevo Bank, also known as the Petrel Islands (), is a small, uninhabited reef with some small grass-covered islets, located in the western Caribbean Sea at , with a lighthouse on Low Cay at . The closest neighbouring land feature is Serranilla Bank, located to the west.
The reef w... | 52,967 |
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Colombia has sovereignty over both Bajo Nuevo and Serranilla Banks.
# Geography.
Bajo Nuevo Bank is about long and wide. The satellite image shows two distinct atoll-like structures separated by a deep channel wide at its narrowest point. The larger southwestern reef complex measures northeast-southwe... | 52,968 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
coral, driftwood, and sand. The light beacon on Low Cay is a metal tower, painted white with a red top. It emits a focal plane beam of light as two white flashes of light every 15 seconds. The beacon was erected in 1982, and reconstructed by the Colombian Ministry of Defence in February 2008. It is curr... | 52,969 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
Andrés and Providencia. Naval patrols in the area are carried out by the San Andrés fleet of the Colombian Navy. Colombia maintains that it has claimed these territories since 1886, as part of the geographic archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia. This date is disputed by other claimant states, most ... | 52,970 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
and nearby Serranilla Bank. Jamaica's signing of this treaty was regarded by critics as a "de facto" recognition of Colombian sovereignty over the two banks. The treaty is now extinguished, however, as Colombia declined to renew it upon its expiration in August 1986.
In November 1993, Colombia and Jama... | 52,971 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
The exclusion circles were defined in the chart attached to the treaty as "Colombia's territorial sea in Serranilla and Bajo Nuevo". The agreement came into force in March 1994.
Nicaragua lays claim to all the islands on its continental shelf, covering an area of over 50,000 km in the Caribbean Sea, in... | 52,972 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
States claim was made on 22 November 1869 by James W. Jennett under the provisions of the Guano Islands Act. Most claims made by the U.S. over the guano islands in this region were officially renounced in a treaty with Colombia, dated September 1972. But whether or not Bajo Nuevo Bank was included in th... | 52,973 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
1999, had previously also laid claim to Bajo Nuevo and nearby Serranilla Bank. Both states agreed upon a maritime demarcation in 1986 that excluded Honduras from any control over the banks or their surrounding waters. This bilateral treaty ensured that Honduras implicitly recognises Colombia's sovereign... | 52,974 |
750900 | Bajo Nuevo Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bajo%20Nuevo%20Bank | Bajo Nuevo Bank
jo Nuevo and nearby Serranilla Bank. Both states agreed upon a maritime demarcation in 1986 that excluded Honduras from any control over the banks or their surrounding waters. This bilateral treaty ensured that Honduras implicitly recognises Colombia's sovereignty over the disputed territories. Honduras... | 52,975 |
750906 | Edelweiss (grape) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edelweiss%20(grape) | Edelweiss (grape)
Edelweiss (grape)
Edelweiss is a very winter-hardy wine grape variety, pale green in color, derived from crossing the Minnesota 78 and Ontario grapes. It was developed by Elmer Swenson in 1980 in cooperation with the University of Minnesota. The clusters are large and rather loose, weighing a pound o... | 52,976 |
750906 | Edelweiss (grape) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edelweiss%20(grape) | Edelweiss (grape)
rs are large and rather loose, weighing a pound or more. Early picking of the grape is essential for making a wine. Should Edelweiss not be harvested early, the completely ripe "Vitis labrusca" flavoring becomes too strong for the palate of most. Edelweiss was first developed as a table grape. This va... | 52,977 |
750919 | Beta (grape) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beta%20(grape) | Beta (grape)
Beta (grape)
br
Beta is a winter-hardy variety of North American grape derived from a cross of the "Vitis labrusca"-based cultivar Concord and a selection of "Vitis riparia", the wild riverbank grape, called Carver. It is an extremely cold-hardy grape that is self-fertile. This variety is grown successfu... | 52,978 |
750919 | Beta (grape) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beta%20(grape) | Beta (grape)
tis riparia", the wild riverbank grape, called Carver. It is an extremely cold-hardy grape that is self-fertile. This variety is grown successfully in Finland and was widely planted in Minnesota in the early 20th century. It ripens in late September in New York State. It bears dark, blue-black fruit that i... | 52,979 |
750912 | Wild In Your Garden | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wild%20In%20Your%20Garden | Wild In Your Garden
Wild In Your Garden
Wild In Your Garden was a live BBC television show, broadcast in 2003.
Presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble (both in a suburban garden in Bristol, England) and Simon King (mostly on location nearby) presented live action from a number of hidden cameras in or near nest boxes, badg... | 52,980 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
Actually
Actually (stylised as Pet Shop Boys, actually.) is the second studio album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. It was released on 7 September 1987 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in the United States and Canada. According to Neil Tennant and music historian Wayne Studer, ... | 52,981 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
album at number 88 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".
# Release.
"Actually" was released on 7 September 1987 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI Manhattan in the United States and Canada. In television commercials for the release, Lowe and Tennant were shown in black tie, blank-faced again... | 52,982 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
Deserve This?"—a duet with fellow Parlophone artist Dusty Springfield which peaked at number two in both the UK and US and led to a resurgence of interest in Springfield's earlier work—and another UK number one in April 1988 with a remixed version of the song "Heart".
During this period the Pet Shop Boys also... | 52,983 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
Listening 1987–1988". The reissue was digitally remastered and included a second disc of B-sides, remixes done by the Pet Shop Boys and previously unreleased material from around the time of the album's original release. Another re-release followed on 9 February 2009 under the title of "Actually: Remastered", ... | 52,984 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
"this is actual pop music with something actual to say—pure commodity, and proud of it." In his retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "Actually" is the album "[where] the Pet Shop Boys perfected their melodic, detached dance-pop".
# In popular culture.
Although not released as ... | 52,985 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
1 episode of the Disney Channel television series "Lizzie McGuire".
# Personnel.
Pet Shop Boys
- Neil Tennant – co-production on tracks B1, B3 and B4
- Chris Lowe – co-production on tracks B1, B3 and B4
Guest musicians
- Andy Richards – Fairlight CMI and keyboard programming on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9
-... | 52,986 |
750827 | Actually | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Actually | Actually
ians
- Andy Richards – Fairlight CMI and keyboard programming on tracks 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9
- Dusty Springfield – guest vocals on track 2
- J. J. Jeczalik – Fairlight CMI programming on track 3
- Gary Maughan – additional programming on track 3
- Angelo Badalamenti – orchestra arrangement on track 6
- Blue ... | 52,987 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
Siemens–Duewag U2
The Siemens-Düwag U2 is a type of light-rail tram vehicle (LRV). The cars were built by consortium of Siemens, Wegmann & Co. and Düwag. The U2 design was built on the Siemens U1 prototype tram built in 1965 (now stored at a Frankfurt tram museum).
The name is derived from the class... | 52,988 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
light rail system in Frankfurt. Its design was later used for systems in Edmonton and Calgary. The model was chosen for operations in San Diego in 1979, however, the planned platform level was lower than their counterpart system, so a street-level version was developed, and 71 vehicles were eventually... | 52,989 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
low-floor cars. The remainder were used on its initial operating segment until January 2015. In 2016, 2 of the cars were shipped to Texas for use in a dog training facility. The remainder were hauled off property by 2018 to make room for new vehicles.
After 48 years of service, the last Frankfurt exa... | 52,990 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
into preserving at least one vehicle for their historical fleet.
## New life in San Diego.
On July 11th, 2019. San Diego MTS announced that their original U2, 1001, Would enter service on Saturday, July 13th, 2019. MTS held a celebration at 12th & Imperial on July 11th, 2019 with items like Fanny Pa... | 52,991 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
rush hour. Each articulated car has a total passenger capacity of 264 passengers. It may be equipped with two DC motors for a total power output of and a maximum speed of , or with four AC motors for an output of and speed of .
As the length of a tram or light-rail train running on shared track is re... | 52,992 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
Type U3 is an upgraded version of the U2 with a slightly longer length and cosmetic changes. Introduced in 1977, they entered service in 1980 and were never exported outside of Germany's Frankfurt U-Bahn.
Siemens–Düwag Type U2A on Sacramento Regional Transit's light rail system is an upgraded version... | 52,993 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
U2 cars acquired, by city.
- Calgary (C-Train) — 85 cars (83 U2-DC, and 2 U2-AC acquired from Edmonton)
- Edmonton (Edmonton Light Rail Transit) — 37 cars, 2 U2-AC cars operated as demonstrators between 1988 and 1990, plus 3 parts cars acquired from Calgary.
- Retrofitted to have electronic LED des... | 52,994 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
retired from service on the San Diego Trolley on January 26, 2015
- Mendoza (Metrotranvía Mendoza) — 18 cars (provided by San Diego)
## U2a cars acquired, by city.
- Sacramento (Sacramento Regional Transit District Light Rail) - 26 cars
# Preservation.
San Diego MTS retired their last U2 vehicles... | 52,995 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
Museum - Cars 1017 and 1018, operate on museum excursions
- Rockhill Trolley Museum - Car 1019 operates regularly on the Museum system.
MTS has retained Car 1001 as part of its heritage fleet of light rail vehicles. It is currently being restored for use on the Silver Line, and was partly unveiled i... | 52,996 |
750830 | Siemens–Duewag U2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siemens–Duewag%20U2 | Siemens–Duewag U2
tored for use on the Silver Line, and was partly unveiled in June 2019. It will run alongside San Diego PCC cars 529 and 530.
The City of Edmonton has stated that at least one U2 will be preserved and operational for their historical fleet. The City of Calgary is currently looking into putting one on... | 52,997 |
750922 | Masalit people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Masalit%20people | Masalit people
Masalit people
The Masalit (Masalit: "masala/masara"; ) are an ethnic group inhabiting western Sudan and eastern Chad. They speak the Masalit language, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan family.
# Overview.
The Masalit primarily live in villages in the Geneina and Habila districts, located in the weste... | 52,998 |
750922 | Masalit people | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Masalit%20people | Masalit people
Mesalit, and Massalit. They are primarily subsistence agriculturalists, cultivating peanuts and millet. Further south in their territory, they grow various other crops, including sorghum. The typical Masalit house is constructed of conical wood and thatch.
Most Masalit today adhere to Islam, which they ... | 52,999 |
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