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1403227 | Jack Hardy (politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack%20Hardy%20(politician) | Jack Hardy (politician)
rovince for much of 1970, and was hired as the assistant city manager for Terrance, British Columbia late in the year. Some described his behaviour during this time as erratic. He was quoted as saying, "I have to earn a living, and in Manitoba -- it is totally impossible for a politician to do i... | 54,400 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
Cetingrad
Cetingrad is a municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia near Croatia's border with Bosnia. The population of the village itself is 319, while the total municipality population is 2,027 (2011). The municipality is part of Kordun. Cetingrad is underdeveloped municipality which is statistically classi... | 54,401 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
History.
Cetingrad was built in the vicinity of the ruins of the mediaeval fortress of Cetin. The Middle Ages was the golden era of Cetin. Near the fortress there was Franciscan monastery and several churches. At that time Cetin was the property of Frankopan family and it played important role in History of ... | 54,402 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
in Vienna.
In next centuries Cetin was part of Military Frontier, the borderland between Habsburg Monarchy and Ottoman Empire. During this period Ottoman army took control over it several times. The fortress was several times damaged and repaired. In 1790 Austrian troops under the command of general Walisch ... | 54,403 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
19th and 20th century the area was rarely populated and without any real opportunity for economic development. During World War II area once again experienced great suffering and destruction and after the war socialist Yugoslavia neglected this area. Due to poverty population was forced to migrate, first over... | 54,404 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
in 1891). The church was later rebuilt.
In May 1995, Cetingrad was the site of a helicopter crash, caused by a missile fired by Serbs, in which the foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Irfan Ljubijankić and six others were killed. In August 1995 during the Operation Storm Croatian army took Cetingrad. ... | 54,405 |
1403220 | Cetingrad | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cetingrad | Cetingrad
# Demographics.
According to the 2011 census, Municipality of Cetingrad has the following ethnic breakdown:
# Culture.
Cetingrad is home to a monument to Croatian soldiers from the Croatian War of Independence. The town celebrates August 7 as its municipal day to commemorate its liberation from the rebel R... | 54,406 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
Mirabelle plum
Mirabelle plum, also known as mirabelle prune or cherry plum (Prunus domestica" subsp. "syriaca), is a cultivar group of plum trees of the genus "Prunus". It is believed that the plum was cultivated from a wild fruit grown in Anatolia.
# Description.
The mirabelle is identified by its s... | 54,407 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
eau de vie (20%). The plums are also excellent when eaten fresh.
The mirabelle reaches maturity and is harvested from July to mid-September in the Northern Hemisphere. The traditional method of shaking the trees is now mechanized, but the principle remains the same: the ripe fruits are shaken loose and ... | 54,408 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
annually, which constitutes 80% of global commercial production.
There are two main cultivars grown for fruit production, derived from cherry plums grown in Nancy and Metz. The Metz type is smaller, less hard, and less sweet, and has no small red spots on the skin. It is very good for jam, while the Nan... | 54,409 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
the Mirabelle plum during the popular Mirabelle Festival held in August. During the festival, in addition to open markets selling fresh prunes, mirabelle tarts, and mirabelle liquor, there is live music, fireworks, parties, art exhibits, a parade with floral floats and competition, and the crowning of th... | 54,410 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
introduced in the mid-twentieth century by Xosé Sánchez García and where it has acclimated to perfection. In Galicia it is consumed fresh, but it is also used to manufacture preserves and liqueurs. It is also naturalized in the Ebro Valley in parts of Zaragoza, Teruel, Lleida and Tarragona, and can be fo... | 54,411 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
in Liverpool, and several may be found in the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes. Red and yellow varieties have also been found recently in an ancient hedge row just outside Northampton. A lone tree found in a nature area in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire produced a massive crop in 2015. Several mirabelles... | 54,412 |
1403223 | Mirabelle plum | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mirabelle%20plum | Mirabelle plum
o found in hedgerows in Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and on the Millfied Golf Course, Lincolnshire.
They are likewise found in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland and Slovakia both wild and cultivated, often at roadsides. In the United States, trees dating back to the 1940s are ... | 54,413 |
1403254 | Johan Kjeldahl | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Kjeldahl | Johan Kjeldahl
Johan Kjeldahl
Johan Gustav Christoffer Thorsager Kjeldahl ( 16 August 1849 – 18 July 1900), was a Danish chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in certain organic compounds using a laboratory technique which was named the Kjeldahl method after him.
# Professional life.
... | 54,414 |
1403254 | Johan Kjeldahl | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Kjeldahl | Johan Kjeldahl
in analytical chemistry related to proteins and biochemistry at the time were far from accurate.
## Kjeldahl method.
In order to solve the problem of determining accurate nitrogen content in a sample, Kjeldahl developed a method which involves a two-step reaction: a distillation and a back titration. H... | 54,415 |
1403254 | Johan Kjeldahl | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Kjeldahl | Johan Kjeldahl
with caustic soda to indirectly measure nitrogen.
During the 1880s, Kjeldahl used potassium sulfate to raise the boiling point of the acid and mercury as a catalyst to speed the decomposition. For the back titration process of the released ammonia, he used boric acid buffer solution.
On 7 March 1883, K... | 54,416 |
1403254 | Johan Kjeldahl | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Johan%20Kjeldahl | Johan Kjeldahl
ented his method at the Danish Chemical Society.
# Legacy.
Johan Kjeldahl died on 18 July 1900 in Tisvildeleje, Denmark at the age of 50.
His laboratory technique for nitrogen and protein analysis is still the universally accepted method for this analysis. Although other methods claim to be faster and... | 54,417 |
1403261 | Leonard Claydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonard%20Claydon | Leonard Claydon
Leonard Claydon
Leonard Harold Claydon (December 31, 1915 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – December 8, 1971) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Manitoba legislature as a Progressive Conservative from 1969 until his death.
Claydon was educated at Winnipeg public schools and St. Johns College... | 54,418 |
1403261 | Leonard Claydon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonard%20Claydon | Leonard Claydon
He was elected to the Winnipeg City Council in the 1960 municipal election, was re-elected four times. He chaired the city's Public Works Committee from 1961 to 1969, and served as acting deputy mayor in 1968.
Claydon won a by-election for the Manitoba legislature in the riding of Wolseley in February ... | 54,419 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
Tiong Bahru
Tiong Bahru is a housing estate located within the Bukit Merah Planning Area, in the Central Region of Singapore. Tiong Bahru was constructed in the 1920s by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the predecessor to the Housing Development Board and an entity of the British colonial authority providi... | 54,420 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
indie boutiques, start-ups, galleries, etc.
# Etymology.
The name "Tiong Bahru" means "new cemetery" ("thióng" 塚 – Hokkien for "cemetery", "bahru" – Malay for "new").
# History.
In 1927, 70 acres of land were acquired by Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) as a test case for public housing estate. This la... | 54,421 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
first block of SIT flats, block 55, was ready in December 1936. Its 20 flat units of the total 28 flat units were occupied by 11 families then. It had adopted a similar typology to the shophouse where the ground floor consisted of shops with residential flats above. According to Tan Mok Lee, one of the firs... | 54,422 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
an early settler and the father of the community leader Lim Nee Soon. Tiong Bahru was surrounded by the Sit Wah and Outram roads. Beyond were mangrove swamp and hillocks.
Tiong Bahru was then also known as Mei Ren Wo ("den of beauties") as it was where wealthy men would keep their mistresses. Due to close ... | 54,423 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
plans were drawn to convert the motor garages at the back of the flats in Seng Poh Road into bomb shelters. By 1941, there were 784 flats, 54 tenements and 33 shops, which housed over 6000 residents. Since then, no new flats were built until the 1950s after the war. As the war drew near, the flats were pain... | 54,424 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
Japanese soldiers who used British prisoners-of-war to perform duties and labour on site occupied many flats, which were also used as brothels and gambling dens.
The SIT’s pre-war housing output of 2112 units was insufficient to meet the housing shortage as it only provided about 100 units per year. As a r... | 54,425 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
over the estate's heritage status as a pioneering experiment in modern urban housing and in its entrenched familiarity in Singaporeans' sense of place, twenty blocks of the pre-WWII flats were gazetted by the Urban Redevelopment Authority for conservation. Included in the Tiong Bahru Conservation Area are 3... | 54,426 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
were the subject of the tenth of the Civic Life films by the Irish filmmakers, Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy. 150 volunteers from the estate and from across Singapore were involved. The film premiered at the National Museum of Singapore in October 2010.
Tiong Bahru is now seen as a hotspot for yuppies an... | 54,427 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
the pre-war flats was Alfred G. Church, a British appointed by the colonial government. Block 55, the first block of 20 blocks was done by 1936. Built in the late Art Deco movement, the flats featured a style known as the Streamline Moderne. This style incorporated curved horizontal lines that embodied the ... | 54,428 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
Style with boxier, cleaner lines and modern materials such as steel, glass and concrete. In addition, the design was the first time the climate was taken into consideration as it include tropical elements such as higher ceilings, large windows, and balconies.
# Facilities.
The estate has one shopping cent... | 54,429 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
Qi Tian Gong temple on Eng Hoon Street is dedicated to the Monkey God. It has birthday celebrations on the 16th day of the 1st and 8th Lunar Months, which include lion, dragon dances, and performances of Chinese street opera.
## Tiong Bahru Market.
In 1945, two house shops were sacrificed to build a wet m... | 54,430 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
Poh Road. The Seng Poh Road was named after Tan Seng Poh (1830 1879) of Perak. He was a Municipal Commissioner, a Justice of the Peace and a brother in law of Seah Eu Chin.
The market was constructed of stalls with a simple wooden frame and zinc pitched roofs. Meats were hung without refrigeration. The Tio... | 54,431 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
the market including a watertight roof, brighter lights, a broader walkway and garden lights. In 2004, the market was closed for two years for rebuilding. Stall holders were relocated to a temporary site on Kim Pong Road during this time. Kim Pong Road was named after Low Kim Pong (1837 1909) a local mercha... | 54,432 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
2012, the National Heritage Board created an exhibition near the Tiong Bahru market to commemorate the battle for Singapore. Some, especially older residents and vendors, miss the vibrant atmosphere of the old market. The Market has a regular 7th Lunar Month dinner and auction.
# Transportation.
The neare... | 54,433 |
1403258 | Tiong Bahru | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tiong%20Bahru | Tiong Bahru
oard created an exhibition near the Tiong Bahru market to commemorate the battle for Singapore. Some, especially older residents and vendors, miss the vibrant atmosphere of the old market. The Market has a regular 7th Lunar Month dinner and auction.
# Transportation.
The nearest Mass Rapid Transit station... | 54,434 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
Andreas Paolo Perger
Andreas Paolo Perger (born 1970 in Munich, Germany) is a contemporary Austrian guitarist, improviser, and composer of German-Polish and Austrian-Italian descent. His music, autobiographical in nature, draws from variety of traditional and contemporary influences, such as conte... | 54,435 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
and/or room-related elements (Cinema Series, Orchestra Series). Inspired by the spatial choral work of Johann Sebastian Bach at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig and the spatial orchestral work "Prometeo" of Luigi Nono, he developed an extended instrument and an improvising and composing method for hi... | 54,436 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
also uses hand symbols, the electronic sounds of the guitar amplifier, and various materials like wood, metal, and paper.
Perger's music ranges from pieces for classical or electric guitar, duo works for guitar and cello, string quartets, jazz rock trios and quartets, to room-related interactive g... | 54,437 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
relation between improvisation and composition, adapted for guitar and ensembles is a main issue in the music of Perger.
Together with the relation between sound and its spatial and social context (installation, social sculpture), it forms the framework condition for the open and variable musical ... | 54,438 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
eventually form the complete finished work adding a relevant amount of intuition and not calculated spontaneity.
# 5.1 surround guitar, sound art.
] His instrument, an electric concert guitar, is the result of several years of development in cooperation with Stevens Custom Guitars and Huber Amps.... | 54,439 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
channel of an amplifier, and further to six separate loudspeakers in a room. It is played with finger technique on medium steel strings and sounds like an electric guitar. The instrument was built in 1998. It was presented at the Frankfurt Music Fair in 1999. The first radio live transmission (surr... | 54,440 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
in Berlin, represents ten improvised compositions on the instrument in CD quality. The title refers to the acoustic relief arising while listening to the music with stereo headphones.
# Concert guitar, concert improvisation, composition.
] The classical concert guitar has always fascinated Perger... | 54,441 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
improvisation into his music and playing technique of the interpretation-oriented instrument and developed a personal sound vocabulary. A last step in this process was the adaption of his module-based improvising and composing method completed on the 5.1 surround guitar.
"Gravure/Gravure", improvi... | 54,442 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
originating from the concert improvisations reflect the instrument in a pluralistic multilayered way and enfold a wide dynamic and tonal pulse in the acoustics of the church. On 2017.08.10 the berlin daily newspaper B.Z. wrote in the category "Classical": „The austrian concert guitarist Andreas Pao... | 54,443 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
Pop and Ethnomorphocology" arose. The late saxophonist Monty Waters was featured on the CD "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and joined the band a few times for live concerts. With the saxophonist Johannes Enders he played some duo concerts.
Starting from his work with the concert guitar, he played solo c... | 54,444 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
improvisers such as Franz Hautzinger, Sebastiano Tramontana, Christofer Varner, the ICI Ensemble, and Tobias Delius followed.
# Works for Orchestra 1–9.
"Work for Orchestra 1 – An interactive work genesis" was premiered at St. Johannes-Evangelist-Church in Berlin in June 2013. The lineup consiste... | 54,445 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
It is the first work of a series of nine, that will be completed during the next years.
"Work for Orchestra 2 – An interactive work genesis" was premiered at St. Johannes-Evangelist-Church in Berlin in June 2015. The lineup consisted of Biliana Voutchkova (vl), Klaus Janek (db, e), Antonis Anisseg... | 54,446 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
during the concert. The concert video was directed by Carlos Bustamante.
"Work for Orchestra 3 – An interactive work genesis" was premiered on the 2017.05.26 at St. Elisabeth-Church in Berlin on the occasion of "36. Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag". An expert jury awarded twenty-two works of kn... | 54,447 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
sound-spontaneity in moving narrative correlations."
The lineup consisted of Andreas Paolo Perger (e-gtr, c), Alessandra Eramo (voc, e), Audrey Chen (vc, voc), Biliana Voutchkova (vl), Chris Dahlgren (viola da gamba), Elena Kakaliagou (frh), Emilio Gordoa (vib), Hilary Jeffery (trb), Matthias Baue... | 54,448 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
as Austrian in Munich, Andreas Paolo Perger grew up there and in Bolzano/Bozen. After receiving piano lessons at the age of three, he got classical guitar lessons from age seven and jazz guitar lessons from age eleven. Writing songs and forming bands was the only thing he did between age eleven and... | 54,449 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
Probst-Polášek, master student of Andrés Segovia, at the Munich Conservatory. In these years he additionally studied jazz guitar on his own and went to master classes and lessons with John Scofield, John McLaughlin, Joe Pass, and Mike Stern. Probst-Polášek helped him adapt his jazz-related composit... | 54,450 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
a work in residence in New York in 1996. After its publishing in 1999 it was reviewed as "highly recommendable". Studies with Evan Parker, Frederic Rzewski and the late Wolfgang Stryi during an Ensemble Modern academy master class helped him to combine and balance improvisation and composition. Add... | 54,451 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
additional spatial layer. His work could be described as rooted in tradition and inspired by contemporary musical concepts, which also gets obvious in his music for the classical concert guitar.
In 1997 he was awarded "Newcomer of the Year" of the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung". He also wo... | 54,452 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
at the Musicacademy in Wroclaw, Poland, the Transart in Bolzano, Italy, the Bach Night at Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany, the Tonspur_live in Vienna, the international festival "Jazz an der Donau", Germany, the 4th Electric Eclectics Festival, Canada, and the Institut Intermédií in Prague, Czec... | 54,453 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
the age of cola (1998) Academica/ Fenn Music
- 9. Spielt Werke von/ Plays works of Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Martin (1996) Academica/ Fenn Music
- 10. Konzert für Gitarre und Streichquartett – Kompositionen für Konzertgitarre/ Concert for guitar and string quartet – Compositions for concert guitar... | 54,454 |
1403256 | Andreas Paolo Perger | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andreas%20Paolo%20Perger | Andreas Paolo Perger
rt video "Work for Orchestra 2 – An interactive work genesis" by Carlos Bustamante, Berlin 2015 (50min)
- 2. Documentary concert video "Work for Orchestra 1 – An interactive work genesis" by Carlos Bustamante, Berlin 2013 (70min)
- 3. Europäische Originale/ European Originals – Rome/ London/ Pari... | 54,455 |
1403269 | Michel Gbezera-Bria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michel%20Gbezera-Bria | Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria
Michel Gbezera-Bria (born 1 January 1946) is a Central African politician and diplomat. He was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 1997 to 1999. He is currently the CAR Ambassador to France.
# Early life.
Gbezera-Bria was born in Bossangoa on 1 January 1946. He... | 54,456 |
1403269 | Michel Gbezera-Bria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michel%20Gbezera-Bria | Michel Gbezera-Bria
on 9 June 1975. On 4 April 1976, Gbezera-Bria was appointed deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He became minister of public service, labor, and social security on 14 December 1976, serving until his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 18 April 1977. Gbezera-Bria served as foreign minister... | 54,457 |
1403269 | Michel Gbezera-Bria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michel%20Gbezera-Bria | Michel Gbezera-Bria
to Sudanese air traffic controllers refusing to allow his airplane to fly over Sudan's airspace. He served as private secretary to President Ange-Felix Patasse from 1995 to 17 June 1996, when he was again named foreign minister.
Patasse tried to form a government of national unity and appointed Gbe... | 54,458 |
1403269 | Michel Gbezera-Bria | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michel%20Gbezera-Bria | Michel Gbezera-Bria
ary 1997. He formed a new "Government of Action" after a mutiny in the armed forces. Charles Herve Wenezoui was named head of his cabinet. Anicet Georges Dologuélé replaced him as premier 4 January 1999. Gbezera-Bria subsequently served as Minister of State. He served as president of Ecobank Centafr... | 54,459 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
David Charvet
David Franck Charvet (; born 15 May 1972) is a French singer, actor, model, and television personality.
# Early life.
Charvet was born in Lyon, France, the son of Christiane Charvet Haddad and businessman Paul Guez, founder of the Sasson brand of jeans in the 1980s. He was raised in a Jew... | 54,460 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
full seasons until 1995. He appeared as Craig Field on "Melrose Place" from 1996–98. Between 1995–99, he appeared in "Seduced and Betrayed", "Derby", "Angel Flight Down", and "Meet Prince Charming". He left acting in 1999 to concentrate on his musical career.
In 2006, Charvet returned to acting in a movi... | 54,461 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
"The Farm"). The show was broadcast on TF1.
# Music career.
After successful runs at "Baywatch" and "Melrose Place" in the 1990s, Charvet decided to return to France with a 5-album contract with Universal Music Group France. During a span of seven years, he released three pop rock studio albums with sel... | 54,462 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
in France, followed by the bilingual "Apprendre à aimer"/"Teach Me How to Love" that made it to the French Top 20 and was a hit in Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Charvet has sold over 2.5 million albums.
# Interests.
In June 2010, Charvet joined "The Blue Seals", a non-profit organization ai... | 54,463 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
fellow "Baywatch" alum Brooke Burns) have two children together. Brooke already had two daughters from her first marriage (to plastic surgeon Garth Fisher). David and Brooke officially married on 12 August 2011, with Brooke announcing that she would be taking her husband's last name and be known as Brooke... | 54,464 |
1403267 | David Charvet | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20Charvet | David Charvet
att Brody
- 1994: "Harts of the West" as Tad
- 1996-1998: "Melrose Place" as Craig Field
- Videos
- 1995: "Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise" as Matt Brody
- 2009: "Green Flash" aka "Beach Kings" as Cameron Day
- TV films
- 1995: "Seduced and Betrayed" as Dan Hiller
- 1995: "Derby" as Cass Sundstrom
-... | 54,465 |
1403276 | List of settlements in Evrytania | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20settlements%20in%20Evrytania | List of settlements in Evrytania
List of settlements in Evrytania
This is a list of settlements in Evrytania, Greece.
- Agia Triada
- Agia Vlacherna
- Agios Andreas
- Agios Charalampos
- Agios Dimitrios
- Agios Nikolaos
- Agrafa
- Alestia
- Ampliani
- Anatoliki Fragkista
- Aniada
- Aspropyrgos
- Chelidona... | 54,466 |
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idakia
- Fourna
- Granitsa
- Kalesmeno
- Karitsa
- Karpenisi
- Kastania
- Katavothra
- Kedra
- Kerasochori
- Klafsi
- Kleisto
- Koryschades
- Krikello
- Lepiana
- Limeri
- Lithochori
- Marathia
- Marathos
- Mavrommata
- Megalo Chorio
- Mesokomi
- Mikro Chorio
- Mo... | 54,467 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
William E. Caswell
William Edward Caswell (June 22, 1947 – September 11, 2001) was a physicist who died during the September 11 attacks, as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon. Caswell did work in quantum gauge theory, most notably, his 1972 calculatio... | 54,468 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years. He then attended graduate school at Princeton University, majoring in physics. His work at Princeton was delayed when he was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, where he came to admire the drill sergeant to whom he was assigned for basic training... | 54,469 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
properties. His thesis, published in 1974, was groundbreaking work that encouraged and shaped future research. To quote his obituary in "Physics Today": "Today the interpretation of many experiments in high-energy physics requires multiloop quantum chromodynamics calculations, and Bill's result is a ... | 54,470 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
work in quantum gauge theory. His graduate career coincided with the synthesis of gauge symmetry and renormalization group ideas, in which he himself made several pioneering contributions, the highpoint of which was his 1972 calculation of the beta function to two-loop accuracy. According to "Physics... | 54,471 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
symbolic calculation, he adapted Tony Hearn's REDUCE program in order to graph out calculations. Today his work is utilized in the multiloop quantum chromodynamics calculations that are used in high-energy physics experiments.
Caswell and Peter Lepage did significant work in 1978 to develop new and ... | 54,472 |
1403271 | William E. Caswell | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20E.%20Caswell | William E. Caswell
rgy physics experiments.
Caswell and Peter Lepage did significant work in 1978 to develop new and powerful tools for dealing with bound states such as positronium and charmonium.
In 1983, Caswell left academic work for the Naval Surface Weapons Center, first at White Oak, Maryland, formerly the Nav... | 54,473 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
Moscow Aviation Institute
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) () founded in 1930 is one of several major engineering higher education establishments in Moscow. Since its inception MAI has been spearheading advances in aerospace technology both within Russia and worldwide.... | 54,474 |
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during the Jet age. Research conducted in the university contributed to heralding the space age.
The university has to its merit more than 160000 specialists, 250 chief designers in the Aerospace Industry. 50 Academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 22 cosmonauts, 100 test pilots and ... | 54,475 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
Founding and vision.
There was a task in the USSR – to prepare 435,000 engineers and technicians in five years (1930–1935) during the USSR industrialization period, while their number in 1929 was 66,000.
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) was established on 20 March 193... | 54,476 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
Aircraft engines and Aerodynamics. On its 10th anniversary in 1940, the university had established itself as a premier aeronautical university with 38 departments, 22 laboratories and a Student design office and production facility.
The uniqueness of the MAI is that historically it was create... | 54,477 |
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and armaments workshops.
The university was partly evacuated to Almaty, Kazakhstan under the leadership of Alexander Yakovlev. By 1942 the Moscow campus of MAI started functioning in parallel with the Almaty campus. It was in the workshops of MAI in Almaty, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the legendary ... | 54,478 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
jet aircraft were made as far back as 1910 by Henri Coandă, it war during World War II that significant developments were made.
Arkhip Lyulka designed the first Two-stage centrifugal compressor Turbojet in 1938. Alexander Bereznyak a graduate of MAI, designed the first jet aircraft in the USS... | 54,479 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
jet aircraft. On 26 April 1946, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 became the first operational turbojet fighter in the USSR.
It was also in the same year Faculty of Radio electronics was established based on department of Radio-location, to assimilate newer technologies in the field of Radio location.
... | 54,480 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
satellite opening up Space for mankind, graduates from MAI were deeply involved in the space program since its inception under the leadership of Sergey Korolev, the legendary chief designer of head of the Soviet space program and Mikhail Tikhonravov chief designer of satellites Sputnik-3, Luna... | 54,481 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
of Aviation technologies, Russian scientific-research institute of aviation materials, Central institute of Aircraft engines, 30th Central Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence, Gromov Flight Research Institute among others.
Key figures from the university during this era were Ro... | 54,482 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
and to provide greater exposure to students in design and production work. The Design office functions today as the OKKBES-MAI http://oskbes.ru/english.html.
# Moscow Aviation Institute (Moscow Aviation and Aerospace University) today.
Currently, MAI is the only university in Russia, which p... | 54,483 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
3 specialized resource centers, an experimental-design factory, and an aerodrome are available for the students.
In 1980 the institute was awarded the Order of the October Revolution.
In 1993 Moscow Aviation Institute was given one more name: "State Technological University". To date, the de... | 54,484 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
have been patented; the opto-electronic device "Photon" designed here is now operating in outer space; innovative power sources based on new principles invented and constructed here are currently used in aircraft and aerospace system units, etc.
In October 2009, the MAI was ranked among the 1... | 54,485 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
Aviation Institute) began simultaneously with the foundation of the institute in 1930. The modern design bureau in the MAI was formed in 1965 as a students one. It was engaged in creation of experimental pilot and remote controlled light aircraft, which were developed according to the requirem... | 54,486 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
co-workers from among the MAI students and teachers and also from among the workers of the industry were invited. The production facility of the MAI aircraft development plant (EOZ) in the experimental development shop (shop No. 3) are manned by qualified technicians. The OSKBES work on the ex... | 54,487 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
and the industrial areas occupied by it in the OSKBES MAI have remained the same. The EOZ MAI (shop No. 3) and the MAPO (Moscow aircraft building plant) were used as an industrial base. On 27 July 1992 the application on realization the inspection work in the OKB MA for reception the certifica... | 54,488 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
aircraft. It was on 17 February 1993.
Aircraft designed and developed at OSKBES include
A single-seater Aviatika-MAI-890 aircraft — passed certification, had a temporary Certificate of a type of 31 March 1994 No. 52В-890, valid till 1 April 1995, is series produced by the RAC "MiG";
A two-s... | 54,489 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
basis for the "Aviatika" aircraft manufacture at the MAPO plant is the License Agreement concluded by this plant with the "Aviatika" joint-stock company on 10 April 1995 (contract No. 4276).
The personnel of the OSKBES have continued to work in the field of light civil aircraft together with ... | 54,490 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
in a serial production. They are:
OSKBES MAI Chief Designer K. Zhidovetskiy (posthumously);
OSKBES MAI Deputy Chief Designer (after the death of K. Zhidovetskiy —
Chief Designer) N. Goryunov;
OSKBES MAI Deputy Chief Designer V. Demin;
OSKBES MAI Deputy Chief Designer V. Feigenbaum;
Recto... | 54,491 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
airships and autogyros. It designed and produced gondolas, nacelles, fly-by-wire power plant controls and empennages of NPO "RosAeroSystems" airships Au-30 and Au-12M.
The design and development of Autogyro MAI-208 was started in 2006. The first MAI-208 is undergoing testing. OSKBES MAI prese... | 54,492 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
designing a new training glider MAI-227.
# Notable alumni.
The total of Moscow Aviation Institute alumni number in the hundreds of thousands. They work in design offices (foreign and domestic), plants, repair shops, scientific research institutes, universities, laboratories, aviation compani... | 54,493 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
2. School №2. Engines for Flying Vehicles
- 3. School №3. Control Systems, informatics and electropower systems
- 4. School №4. Radio Electronics for flying vehicles
- 5. School №5. The Institute of Business Engineering MAI
- 6. School №6. Astronautical and rocket engineering
- 7. School ... | 54,494 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
MAI department (with IIF RF)
- Institute of Military Science
## Branches.
The Institute has also several branches:
- "Voskhod" (Leninsk, Baikonur cosmodrome)
- "Vzlet" (Akhtubinsk)
- "Strela" (Zhukovskiy)
- "Kometa" (Khimki, former territorial faculty No. 20)
- "Space technics" (Khimki... | 54,495 |
1403265 | Moscow Aviation Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moscow%20Aviation%20Institute | Moscow Aviation Institute
- 2. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
- 3. Hyperschall Technologie Gottingen, Germany
- 4. , Germany
- 5. Hochschule Esslingen, Germany
- 6. Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany
- 7. Technische Universität München, Germany
- 8. Beihang University, China
- Ching Yun University, Taiwan
- ... | 54,496 |
1403294 | Concluding | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concluding | Concluding
Concluding
Concluding is a novel by British writer Henry Green first published in 1948. It is set entirely on the expansive and idyllic premises of a state-run institution for girls somewhere in rural England and chronicles the events of one summer's day—a Wednesday, and "Founder's Day"—in the lives of the ... | 54,497 |
1403294 | Concluding | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concluding | Concluding
300 or so students are virtually indistinguishable from one another, a fact which is stressed by their names all starting with the letter M: Margot, Marion, Mary, Melissa, Merode, Midget, Mirabel, Moira. Their budding but suppressed sexuality—they are all between 16 and 18 years of age and "going to be attra... | 54,498 |
1403294 | Concluding | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Concluding | Concluding
and stout man in his late twenties, is having an affair with Elizabeth Rock, a 35-year-old woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who temporarily also lives on the school grounds, in her grandfather's cottage. That man, 76-year-old Mr Rock, is a retired scientist who has been granted the privilege to live... | 54,499 |
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