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11562047 | Bob Ewing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Ewing | Bob Ewing
a major league record of more than 60 straight opening day games of the Reds. She had equal measures of loyalty and superstition, however. Nelle watched several games in 1905 that her husband lost. After that, she refused to go to the park when Ewing pitched, claiming her presence would 'hoodoo' him, accordin... | 6,117,500 |
11562047 | Bob Ewing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Ewing | Bob Ewing
team on May 17, 1913. Five hundred paying fans saw Ewing strike out twelve batters while strolling to a 10 to 0 win. The most important game was to follow, for next up was Wapak's dreaded arch rival, the Botkins Reds.
To turn the pressure up a notch on Botkins, Wapak declared game day to be 'Ewing Day'. As h... | 6,117,501 |
11562047 | Bob Ewing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Ewing | Bob Ewing
raising trotters which competed in races throughout the Midwest. Bob Ewing was elected to two terms as the Auglaize County Sheriff and later ran the Brunswick Cigar Store in Wapak.
Long Bob Ewing died of cancer on June 20, 1947, at age 74.
Nelle, his wife of 42 years, survived him by a quarter-century, beco... | 6,117,502 |
11562047 | Bob Ewing | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Ewing | Bob Ewing
e of 42 years, survived him by a quarter-century, becoming something of a celebrity in Wapakoneta. She also remained an avid Reds fan, living to meet Pete Rose and Johnny Bench and to see the dawn of the Big Red Machine dynasty of the 1970s. She attended more than 60 consecutive opening day games before her o... | 6,117,503 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
Yanesha' language
Yanesha' (Yaneshac̈h/Yanešač̣; literally 'we the people'), also called Amuesha or Amoesha is a language spoken by the Amuesha people of Peru in central and eastern Pasco Region.
Due to the influence and domination of the Inca Empire, Yanesha' has many loanwords from Quechua, includ... | 6,117,504 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
1. The affricates and are phonetically aspirated
- 2. is an allophone of before
Yanesha', similar to languages like Russian, Irish, and Marshallese, makes contrasts between certain pairs of palatalized and plain consonants:
- "anap̃" ('he answered him') vs. "anap" ('he answered')
- "esho'ta netsor... | 6,117,505 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
palatalized consonants have a more perceptible palatal offglide than the alveolar ones. Word-finally, this offglide is voiceless for and while being absent for .
Another general feature of Yanesha' is devoicing in certain contexts. In addition to the devoicing of palatal offglides above, the retrofle... | 6,117,506 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
('shotgun') → ; preceding another stop or an affricate, a stop may be aspirated or unreleased so that "etquëll" ('a fish') is realized as or . The velar fricative is debuccalized to before another consonant.
## Vowels.
Yanesha' has three basic vowel qualities, , , and . Each contrasts phonemically b... | 6,117,507 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
. Before a word-final nasal, this rearticulated vowel may be realized as a syllabic quality of said nasal. Also, although not as long as a phonemically long vowel, laryngeal vowels are generally longer than short ones. When absolutely word-final, laryngealized vowels differ from short ones only by the... | 6,117,508 |
11562244 | Yanesha' language | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yanesha'%20language | Yanesha' language
likely to be realized as close following as in "pe'sherr" ('parakeet') → 'parakeet'
## Phonotactics.
All consonants appear initially, medially, and finally with the exception that and do not occur word-finally. With two exceptions ( and ), initial clusters include at least one stop. The other possib... | 6,117,509 |
11562279 | Gert Heidler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gert%20Heidler | Gert Heidler
Gert Heidler
Gert Heidler (born 30 January 1948) is a former footballer who played for Dynamo Dresden from 1962 until 1982, making 282 appearances. He won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He later worked as a coach. | 6,117,510 |
11562272 | Sao Domingos Mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sao%20Domingos%20Mine | Sao Domingos Mine
Sao Domingos Mine
The São Domingos Mine is a deserted open-pit mine in Corte do Pinto, Alentejo, Portugal. This site is one of the volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, which extends from the southern Portugal into Spain. It was the first place in Portugal to have elec... | 6,117,511 |
11562272 | Sao Domingos Mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sao%20Domingos%20Mine | Sao Domingos Mine
mining concession was leased for 50 years to an English mining company, Mason and Barry, run by Sir Francis Barry, 1st Baronet and his brother-in-law James Mason, because of their industrial mining expertise. The nearby port of Pomarão was inaugurated the same year. Known as Pomaron in England, this i... | 6,117,512 |
11562272 | Sao Domingos Mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sao%20Domingos%20Mine | Sao Domingos Mine
mining to open-pit mining in 1867. Copper ore was initially the main product of the mine; but at the end of World War I sulfuric acid became much more important, so pyrite was mined as a source of sulfur, and this proved to eventually be the downfall of the entire region. Because of the large quantiti... | 6,117,513 |
11562272 | Sao Domingos Mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sao%20Domingos%20Mine | Sao Domingos Mine
acidic with the application of moisture of any sort, like dew, rain, or just humidity in the air. This added another level of misery to the miners as anything they touched had the potential of causing chemical burns.
About 25 megatons of ore had been extracted when the mine was closed in 1966 due to ... | 6,117,514 |
11562272 | Sao Domingos Mine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sao%20Domingos%20Mine | Sao Domingos Mine
ted tourists. Many old mine buildings and the open-cast pit remain. The old mining company headquarters has been converted into a hotel. A small museum and archive, the "casa do mineiro", in an old miner's cottage, depicts the life of the Portuguese miner. There is also an exhibition in an old cinema.... | 6,117,515 |
11562270 | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex%20Hamilton%20(footballer,%20born%201936) | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936)
Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936)
Alexander William Hamilton (1936–1990) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Dundee and the Scotland national team.
Hamilton, a right back, was signed for Dundee by manager Willie Thornton and made his league debut in a 7–1 win over Airdr... | 6,117,516 |
11562270 | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex%20Hamilton%20(footballer,%20born%201936) | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936)
Scotland was in a 2-1 defeat to Poland in October 1965. Hamilton also represented the Scottish League XI.
Hamilton was also a noted singer and was the frontman of a band comprising several of his Dundee teammates, including future Scotland manager Craig Brown. ""Hammy and the Hams... | 6,117,517 |
11562270 | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex%20Hamilton%20(footballer,%20born%201936) | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936)
played with distinction for East London Celtic which later became East London United. Always colourful and controversial, one of his more memorable games was when East London Celtic thrashed Cape Town City 6-3. During the game, with Cape Town City players back-pedalling furiously, ... | 6,117,518 |
11562270 | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alex%20Hamilton%20(footballer,%20born%201936) | Alex Hamilton (footballer, born 1936)
East London Celtic which later became East London United. Always colourful and controversial, one of his more memorable games was when East London Celtic thrashed Cape Town City 6-3. During the game, with Cape Town City players back-pedalling furiously, Alex Hamilton - with the bal... | 6,117,519 |
11562333 | Lovers (Babyface album) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lovers%20(Babyface%20album) | Lovers (Babyface album)
Lovers (Babyface album)
Lovers is the debut studio album from American R&B singer-songwriter and musician Babyface. It was originally released in October 1986 while he was taking a break from his band The Deele. Album charted number 28 on the Soul Album Charts. The album was reissued in 1989 un... | 6,117,520 |
11562290 | Montech water slope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montech%20water%20slope | Montech water slope
Montech water slope
The Montech water slope is a type of canal inclined plane built on the Canal de Garonne, in the commune of Montech, Tarn-et-Garonne, Southwest France. It is managed by the publicly owned and it replaced a group of five successive locks.
The slope has been out of service since a... | 6,117,521 |
11562290 | Montech water slope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montech%20water%20slope | Montech water slope
channel is continuously fed by a small stream of water, thus overcoming any leakage at the seals around a movable gate. The movable gate spans the channel. The points of contact of the gate with the channel are tight but not fixed. Two adapted diesel locomotives, one on either side of the channel su... | 6,117,522 |
11562290 | Montech water slope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montech%20water%20slope | Montech water slope
canal, an upper (non-moving) gate is opened and the boat is then allowed to float free.
To descend the process is reversed.
# Details of the machinery.
By virtue of its power and ingenuity the slope's mobile barrier is the key to the system. It consists of:
- Two locomotives, rigidly connected t... | 6,117,523 |
11562290 | Montech water slope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montech%20water%20slope | Montech water slope
large pneumatic tyres.
The three contact faces of the gate with the channel are equipped with seals to keep the wedge of water in place. The gate is raised or lowered using a hydraulic ram.
The shock absorber is a hydraulically levelled hinged metal frame. It allows boats to be connected to the ga... | 6,117,524 |
11562290 | Montech water slope | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montech%20water%20slope | Montech water slope
er moved: 1,500 m
- Slope of the channel: 3%
- Height of the slope: 13.30 m
- Depth of water wedge moved: 3.75 m
- Length of the water wedge: 125 metres
- Power of the locomotives: 2 ×
- Length of the channel: 443 m
- Width of the channel: 6 m
- Duration of passage: about 6 minutes
- Length... | 6,117,525 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
Crystal Carson
Crystal Carson (born June 24, 1967) is an American acting coach and former actress.
Among her television credits are a contract role as Julia Barrett on the ABC soap opera "General Hospital" (1991–1993; 1997; 1998). Her character Julia was a successful businesswoman and older sister to t... | 6,117,526 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
"Who's That Girl" with Madonna, starring in the cult spoof film, "Killer Tomatoes Strike Back" with John Astin, the lead actress in the suspense drama "Eclipse", the female lead in the action-packed "Cartel", the girl of the sweet boy meets girl story, "Fade Away" opposite Noah Blake, and Blue Star in th... | 6,117,527 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
Crystal portrayed on "General Hospital", it was responsible for her being voted "Best New Female" by "Soap Opera Digest" and put on their cover as one of "Television's Most Beautiful Women", and then nominated for "Best Female Newcomer" on the "Soap Opera Digest" Awards in 1992.
More recently, Crystal h... | 6,117,528 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
to coach privately.
Her clients, over 30 working actors, have included Paula Abdul, Jennifer Beals ("L Word"), David Boreanaz ("Bones"), Brittany Daniel ("Joe Dirt", "White Chicks", "The Game"), RonReaco Lee ("Guess Who", "Committed"), Vanessa Marcil ("Las Vegas"), Rachel Nichols ("Alias", "Amityville H... | 6,117,529 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
a few.
# Teaching Experience.
Crystal Carson Studios - Owner, Teacher, Private Acting Coach 1995 - Currently
ReActing by Heart class and Auditioning by Heart 3-day intensive workshop - Creator of these traveling
workshops, and teaching at various locations, including: Los Angeles Center Studios; Reel... | 6,117,530 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
Institute Global - Los Angeles Center Studios; Downtown Campus (2000 - Currently)
Industry Hollywood - Host teacher of audition technique classes for actors from the U.K. (2007 - 2017) Saigon International Film School - 5 day acting workshop in Vietnam (2014)
Margie Haber Studios – Guest-teacher of aud... | 6,117,531 |
11562222 | Crystal Carson | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crystal%20Carson | Crystal Carson
(1993 – 2006)NYC Seminars / Margie Haber – Taught biannual 4-day seminars in New York at Three of Us (1993 - 2000)
Professional Actors Theatre of the Handicapped; sponsored by CBS-TV - taught classes (1992 - 94)Arrowhead Retreats – Co-taught workshops with television director, Phil Romano & Al Valetta (... | 6,117,532 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
Qiao Ji
Qiao Ji (, died 1345) also known as Qiao Jifu (乔吉甫) was a major Chinese dramatist and poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He was originally from Taiyuan in Shanxi, but lived in the West Lake area in Zhejiang province. His courtesy name was Mengfu (梦符) and his pen name was Shenghao Weng (笙鹤翁). Qiao was said to ha... | 6,117,533 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
poetry are numerous. There are 209 "xiaoling" lyrics exist as well as 11 "taoshu" suites. All were collected into the "Complete Sanqu Poems". In addition his collected works, "Qiao Ji Ji", appeared in 1986. An object of the poet's lyrics was a combination of literary elegance and the language of the street. The... | 6,117,534 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
until he came across a village in a wooded mountain where a beautiful woman lived.
Social criticism is also a recurring theme of Qiao Ji's literary works. This often manifested in his poetry where he constructed imaginary worlds so that they can be rejected. For instance, in the poem "On Myself", the poetic pe... | 6,117,535 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
poem "Sky-Clear Sand", showed one of the poetic innovation that Qiao Ji was able to introduce. This involved the combination of topic and comment construction while his contemporaries wrote their poetry in a structure that began with a topic and followed by the comment.
# Quotations.
Enjoying Leisure
I refin... | 6,117,536 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
bright through my pale papered window.br
This old one awakens from his sleep.
Expressing my sorrow on a winter day
Winter and Cold,br
The time of snow.br
Who will be the withered plum’s companion?br
A fisherman’s skiffbr
Is moored by an islet;br
His coat of green reeds cannot keep out the wind and frost... | 6,117,537 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
forty years insteadbr
On the mad and crazy wind and moon.br
Leisure
In the hills among trees,br
Hut of thatch secluded and fine.br
Faded green pines, bright green of bamboosbr
Fit for a painting;br
Three or four homes near the misty village.br
The soaring dream pursued falling flowers,br
For the taste ... | 6,117,538 |
11562374 | Qiao Ji | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qiao%20Ji | Qiao Ji
nd fences;br
Lie down drunk beneath a bottle-gourd trellis,br
Just pure and unmoved, just me!br
# References.
- Ma Liangchun and Li Futian, "Encyclopedia of Chinese Literature", vol. 4, p. 2012.
- Li Xiusheng, "Collected Works of Qiao Ji", Shanxi Peoples’ Press, 1986.
- Bruce E.Carpenter, 'Chinese San-ch’... | 6,117,539 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
BAYSWAN
Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network (BAYSWAN), is a non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area which works to improve working conditions, increase benefits, and eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within both legal and criminalized adult entertainment industries. The o... | 6,117,540 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
the Coalition on Prostitution and Street Outreach Services Consortium, which included the Asian AIDS Project, the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc., the Institute for Community Health Outreach, New Leaf Community Services, Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida, and Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center. Its purpose at foundin... | 6,117,541 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
and other organizations throughout the Bay Area. BAYSWAN's efforts encompassed the financial, housing, social support, mental health, and medical needs of sex industry workers, including HIV/STD prevention, substance abuse issues, harm reduction, and protection from violence.
# Activities.
BAYSWAN's principal... | 6,117,542 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
and sex industries. Bayswan also works to improve working conditions and to eliminate discrimination against workers within both the legal and criminalized adult entertainment industries, and organizes sex worker rights advocates who work at various agencies as outreach workers.
BAYSWAN sponsors the Prostitute... | 6,117,543 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
Prostitutes' Education Network.
BAYSWAN sponsors the Prostitutes' Education Network (PENet), an educational website on sex workers' rights and issues. PENet provides online access to studies and documents from U.S. and international sources and, as described in "The Harvey Milk Institute Guide to Lesbian, Gay,... | 6,117,544 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
work and a listing of videos for educational purposes." According to BAYSWAN, PENet collects information from studies going back to the 1980s and works to accurately represent the current trends in prostitution and help influence human rights issues affecting prostitutes including human trafficking and exploita... | 6,117,545 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
and panels, and one year even a Good Vibrations-sponsored tutorial entitled "How to Make Your Own Porn Film."
## Lusty Lady.
In 1996 and 1997, BAYSWAN provided support to the workers at the Lusty Lady Theatre, a peep show in San Francisco, in their effort to persuade club management to remove the one-way mirr... | 6,117,546 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
helped to garner public support for the workers as well as inquiries from other exotic dancers and sex workers throughout the country. The group ultimately approached Service Employees International Union Local 790, and in April 1997 Lusty Lady employees voted to unionize, forming the Exotic Dancers Union (EDU)... | 6,117,547 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
run by sex workers with support from the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). A jailed prostitute had her blood drawn without consent and to prevent a public outcry BAYSWAN and COYOTE brokered a deal with the SFDPH. Presenting Priscilla Alexander’s paper on sex worker occupational health and safet... | 6,117,548 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
clinic." "The St. James Infirmary is a peer-based Occupational Safety & Health Clinic for sex workers, and was founded in 1999 by COYOTE as a joint project between Exotic Dancers Alliance (EDA) and the STD Prevention and Control Services of the City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Health. These... | 6,117,549 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
San Francisco Board of Supervisors policy establishing San Francisco as a "city of refuge" and assisting California (state) and U.S. (federal) law enforcement agencies who re-victimized women caught in a cycle of exploitation in a series of massage parlor raids. In an op-ed essay Leigh pointed out previous poli... | 6,117,550 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
violations (and advantages) of this industry. Until we can begin to support rights for migrant workers and craft policies to support their needs to work, we are stuck in a quagmire that attracts, then rescues "innocent victims."
## Proposed federal legislation to tax sex workers.
Leigh, cofounder and director... | 6,117,551 |
11562269 | BAYSWAN | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BAYSWAN | BAYSWAN
N, who is also a bisexual feminist author and artist, criticized 2006 proposed legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa} in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee as being shortsighted. She stated, "Forced labor (and) kidnapping should be targeted, but this legislation broadly targets the se... | 6,117,552 |
11562285 | Fernando Quiroga Palacios | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fernando%20Quiroga%20Palacios | Fernando Quiroga Palacios
Fernando Quiroga Palacios
Fernando Quiroga Palacios (January 21, 1900 – December 7, 1971) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela from 1949 until his death and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
# Biography... | 6,117,553 |
11562285 | Fernando Quiroga Palacios | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fernando%20Quiroga%20Palacios | Fernando Quiroga Palacios
from 1925 to 1942. In 1942, he was named lectoral canon of the cathedral chapter of Valladolid, where he also did pastoral and seminary work until 1945.
On November 24, 1945, Quiroga was appointed Bishop of Mondoñedo by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on March 24, 1946, ... | 6,117,554 |
11562285 | Fernando Quiroga Palacios | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fernando%20Quiroga%20Palacios | Fernando Quiroga Palacios
ne 4, 1949, and later Cardinal Priest of "Sant'Agostino" by Pius XII in the consistory of January 12, 1953.
He served as papal legate to the Marian Congress in Manila, Philippines, during December 1954, and was one of the cardinal electors in the 1958 papal conclave. From 1962 to 1965, Quirog... | 6,117,555 |
11562414 | Dave Smalley (basketball) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave%20Smalley%20(basketball) | Dave Smalley (basketball)
Dave Smalley (basketball)
David P. Smalley (November 29, 1934 – June 1, 2007) was best known as a coach of the United States Naval Academy's men's and women's basketball teams.
He was born in 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Naval Academy with six letters in basketball and ... | 6,117,556 |
11562414 | Dave Smalley (basketball) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave%20Smalley%20(basketball) | Dave Smalley (basketball)
ll team while at the Academy.
After serving for five years in the United States Marine Corps, Smalley returned to the Naval Academy as an assistant coach of the basketball team. He took over from Ben Carnevale in 1966 and compiled a 94-130 record in his ten seasons as men's coach.
Smalley th... | 6,117,557 |
11562433 | Colossal Youth (film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colossal%20Youth%20(film) | Colossal Youth (film)
Colossal Youth (film)
Colossal Youth (, literally "Youth on the March") is a 2006 docufiction feature film directed by Portuguese director Pedro Costa. The film was shot on DV in long, static takes and mixes documentary and fiction storytelling. The third feature by Costa set in Lisbon's Fontainh... | 6,117,558 |
11562433 | Colossal Youth (film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colossal%20Youth%20(film) | Colossal Youth (film)
erdean immigrants. It was part of the Official Competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
# Plot.
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old hom... | 6,117,559 |
11562442 | Vugraph | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vugraph | Vugraph
Vugraph
Vugraph (or Viewgraph) is a method of displaying the bidding and play of bridge hands on a screen for viewing by an audience. The basis of the current computer-generated display was originally developed by Fred Gitelman for the American Contract Bridge League in 1991 under a grant from the estate of Pe... | 6,117,560 |
11562442 | Vugraph | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vugraph | Vugraph
der, a champion player. Then known as PenderGraph, the software program was first used at the 1991 Summer North American Bridge Championships at Las Vegas. The program was substantially revised in 1993 to work under the Microsoft Windows operating system. Archived Vugraph data can be found from various database... | 6,117,561 |
11562459 | Merseybeast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merseybeast | Merseybeast
Merseybeast
Merseybeast is the title of Ian McNabb's third solo album after disbanding The Icicle Works. It is also the title of the first song on the album. The name is a play on the idea of the "Mersey Beat", a 1960s musical genre and movement. Merseybeast is also the title of Ian McNabb's autobiography,... | 6,117,562 |
11562459 | Merseybeast | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Merseybeast | Merseybeast
)
- 2. "Affirmation" (3:33)
- 3. "Beautiful Old Mystery" (4:10)
- 4. "Love's Young Dream" (4:33)
- 5. "Camaraderie" (4:17)
- 6. "Don't Put Your Spell on Me" (5:38)
- 7. "Heydays" (5:45)
- 8. "Little Bit of Magic" (4:54)
- 9. "You Stone My Soul" (6:16)
- 10. "Too Close to the Sun" (3:47)
- 11. "The... | 6,117,563 |
11562470 | Schoendoerffer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schoendoerffer | Schoendoerffer
Schoendoerffer
Schoendoerffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Frédéric Schoendoerffer, a French actor and writer
- Pierre Schoendoerffer, a French director, writer, war reporter, and First Indochina War veteran | 6,117,564 |
11562452 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Soviet%20Treaty%20of%201942 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
The Twenty-Year Mutual Assistance Agreement Between the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Anglo-Soviet Treaty established a military and political alliance between the USSR and the British Empire during World War II, and for 20 years a... | 6,117,565 |
11562452 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Soviet%20Treaty%20of%201942 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
in the Soviet Union, had the goal of establishing a territorial agreement for post-war Europe, largely divided between Britain and the Soviet Union. Stalin hoped to gain the territories once held by the Soviet Union before the losses from Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Sovi... | 6,117,566 |
11562452 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Soviet%20Treaty%20of%201942 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
China, which had all declared war on Axis powers before 1941. Also not represented were countries with governments in exile due to German occupation, like Czechoslovakia and France, in spite of the initial Soviet aims of the treaty sought to direct the post-war structure of those countries. ... | 6,117,567 |
11562452 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Soviet%20Treaty%20of%201942 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942
41. Also not represented were countries with governments in exile due to German occupation, like Czechoslovakia and France, in spite of the initial Soviet aims of the treaty sought to direct the post-war structure of those countries. The treaty represents transition for Britain, ceding some ... | 6,117,568 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
List of Alcatraz escape attempts
There were 14 escape attempts to escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary over the 29 years that Alcatraz served as a federal penitentiary. According to the prison's correctional officers, once a convict arrived on the Alcatraz wharf, his first thought... | 6,117,569 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
June 1962 attempt by Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin, which was marked by careful planning and execution. Faced with high maintenance costs and a poor reputation, Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963.
It had seemed impossible to escape from Alcatraz by swimming. The seasona... | 6,117,570 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
duty of burning trash at the incinerator. He was working burning garbage at the island's incinerator during duty hours when he suddenly ran and began scaling a chain link fence at the edge of the island in an apparent attempt to make for the shore. When he was caught in this act and ref... | 6,117,571 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
insane), an attempt to climb up to grab garbage wedged in the chain link fence (Bowers was assigned to the garbage incinerator detail), or an attempt to climb the fence to feed a seagull. However, regardless of Bowers' initial motive, it is indisputable that Bowers ignored the guards' f... | 6,117,572 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
seen again, but the severe weather conditions at the time have led to a consensus that they drowned in the bay and their bodies were swept out to sea by the strong current in San Francisco Bay. However, they were listed as #1 and #2 on the FBI Most Wanted List.
## May 23, 1938.
Rufus ... | 6,117,573 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
were inmates of the prison's supposedly most-secure unit, D-Block, when they managed to escape the cell house and reach the Alcatraz shore on the night of January 13, 1939 (Friday). As they were putting a makeshift raft together, they were spotted and fired on by a guard in a watch towe... | 6,117,574 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
would try to escape again in the Battle of Alcatraz.
## September 15, 1941.
John Richard Bayless (May 16, 1915 – July 30, 1981) was working on the garbage detail and managed to elude the guards and reach the Alcatraz shore. He jumped into the water and tried swimming to San Francisco ... | 6,117,575 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
and could serve as flotation devices. They then overpowered two guards and bound and gagged them, then escaped out the window, leaving behind two of the four cans. However, one of the overpowered guards managed to get his whistle loose and the other managed to slip his gag and blow the ... | 6,117,576 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
but was discovered by the guards two hours later and surrendered. Hamilton was wrongly assumed by the guards to have been hit by gunfire along with Boarman and his body to have similarly sunk, but had actually been hiding in the same cave as Hunter. Two days later, he climbed back up th... | 6,117,577 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
advantage of the situation to slip out of the New Industries building, where he was working in the laundry. His plan was to cut through the two security fences that separated him from freedom, make his way to the water, and swim the 1.4 miles to San Francisco. His plan went sideways ear... | 6,117,578 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
hospital, then in solitary.
## July 31, 1945.
John K. Giles, a prisoner working at the Alcatraz wharf, managed to assemble a U.S. Army technical sergeant's uniform (probably from pieces stolen from bags of army laundry sent to the island to be cleaned) and board a ferry that provided ... | 6,117,579 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
also known as the "Alcatraz Blastout". It was carried out by six prisoners: Bernard Coy, Joseph Cretzer, Sam Shockley, Clarence Carnes, Marvin Hubbard and Miran Thompson. They daringly took control of the cell house by overpowering correctional officers, and were able to enter the weapo... | 6,117,580 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
guards, William Miller, succumbed to his injuries while the second guard, Harold Stites, was also killed at the cellhouse. Although Shockley, Thompson, and Carnes returned to their cells, the other three, Coy, Cretzer and Hubbard, persisted with their fight. The U.S. Marines intervened ... | 6,117,581 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
who was only 19 years old, was given a second life sentence.
## July 23, 1956.
Floyd Wilson disappeared from his job at the dock but was discovered after hiding for 12 hours among large rocks along the shoreline after giving up his plan to make a raft out of driftwood.
## September 2... | 6,117,582 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
out one of the most intricate escapes ever devised, on June 11, 1962. Behind the prisoners' cells in Cell Block B (where the escapees were interned) was an unguarded wide utility corridor. The prisoners chiseled away the moisture-damaged concrete from around an air vent leading to this ... | 6,117,583 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
large enough for a man to climb through. Stealing a carborundum cord from the prison workshop, the prisoners had removed the rivets from the grille and substituted dummy rivets made of soap. The escapees were given over 50 rubber raincoats from other inmates to use as a raft for the tri... | 6,117,584 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
through his hole so he had to keep chipping to break through. When Morris and the Anglin brothers (John & Clarence) accelerated the schedule, West desperately chipped away at the wall; however, by the time he made it through the wall, his companions were gone. Hundreds of leads and theo... | 6,117,585 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
unlikely that they made it the 1.25 miles to shore due to the strong ocean currents and the cold sea water temperatures ranging between 50 and 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
The U.S. Marshals Service case file remains open and active, however. Morris and the Anglin brothers remain on its wante... | 6,117,586 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
and that officials then engaged in a cover-up. Relatives of the Anglin brothers presented further circumstantial evidence in the mid-2010s in support of a longstanding rumor that the Anglin brothers had fled to Brazil following the escape; a facial recognition analyst concluded that the... | 6,117,587 |
11562278 | List of Alcatraz escape attempts | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List%20of%20Alcatraz%20escape%20attempts | List of Alcatraz escape attempts
was found 81 yards from the main island on the rock formation Little Alcatraz, but Scott reached Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge where Scott was found by teenagers, suffering from hypothermia and exhaustion. After recovering in Letterman General Hospital, he was immediately re... | 6,117,588 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
The 3rd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade is a sustainment brigade of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Stewart, Georgia. The 3rd Sustainment Brigade is responsible for providing logistical support to the 3rd Infantry Divisi... | 6,117,589 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, its first tour being the initial invasion and securing of the country, followed by a second tour of duty as logistics support for units around Baghdad, and finally as the multinational division supply lines in the northern division of the count... | 6,117,590 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
The units are headquartered at Fort Stewart. Georgia, along with the brigade's Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC). Under non-deployment circumstances, the HHC of the Brigade would, in turn, be directly subordinate to the 3rd Infantry Division.
# History.
The unit was c... | 6,117,591 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
and Band, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. On 21 May 1972, the unit was re-organized and re-designed as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Infantry Division Support Command. It was deployed to as part of the Cold War buildup, should hostilities arise in the region w... | 6,117,592 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
nation of Iraq, supporting the four brigades as they pushed through southern Iraq and into the capital of Baghdad. After the initial invasion and capture of Baghdad, the brigade remained in the city, supporting the 3rd Infantry Division as the unit conducted counterinsurgency and... | 6,117,593 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
as the 3rd Support Brigade on 15 June 2005, and re-designated as the 3rd Sustainment Brigade on 21 April 2006.
In 2007, the Brigade saw its third deployment to Iraq during the Iraq War, relieving the 45th Sustainment Brigade of its areas of responsibility of Multinational Divisi... | 6,117,594 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
throughout northern Iraq. The brigade served a total of 15 months in the country, headquartered at Contingency Operating Base Q-West in Northern Iraq under the command of the 316th Expeditionary Support Command. It was relieved during a change of command ceremony on 9 August 2008... | 6,117,595 |
11562411 | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3rd%20Sustainment%20Brigade%20(United%20States) | 3rd Sustainment Brigade (United States)
first tour in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
In September 2014, the brigade deployed a sixth time to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to support sustainment and retrograde operations in seven middle eastern countries.
In October, 2017, the brigade and Special Troops... | 6,117,596 |
11562473 | James Burke (Roscommon politician) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James%20Burke%20(Roscommon%20politician) | James Burke (Roscommon politician)
James Burke (Roscommon politician)
James J. Burke (died 12 May 1964) was an Irish Fine Gael politician. A farmer by profession, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) for the Roscommon constituency at the 1954 general election. He was re-elected at the ... | 6,117,597 |
11562531 | Caribbean Utilities | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caribbean%20Utilities | Caribbean Utilities
Caribbean Utilities
Caribbean Utilities Company, Ltd., known locally as "CUC", commenced operations as the only public electric utility in Grand Cayman, the largest of the three Cayman Islands, in May 1966.
The company has more than 190 employees, most of whom are Caymanian, producing electricity ... | 6,117,598 |
11562548 | When Disco Ruled the World | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=When%20Disco%20Ruled%20the%20World | When Disco Ruled the World
When Disco Ruled the World
When Disco Ruled The World is a music documentary that aired on VH1 in 2005.
# Overview.
The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including:... | 6,117,599 |
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