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11562801 | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shree%20Ghanapathy%20Temple,%20Wimbledon | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon
Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon
Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon, is a Hindu temple in south-west London, England, that was established in the 1980s. The main deity in the temple is of Lord Ganesha. There are also deities of Goddess Durga (Parvati), Lord Hanuman, Krishna etc. Th... | 6,117,700 |
11562801 | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shree%20Ghanapathy%20Temple,%20Wimbledon | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon
has been running classes for many years, teaching the children spiritual education, Sanskrit prayers, how to sing Bhajans (devotional hymns) in addition to learning about other religions too. Voluntary activities take place in affiliation with local authorities and Age Link groups.
T... | 6,117,701 |
11562801 | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shree%20Ghanapathy%20Temple,%20Wimbledon | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon
23rd Wimbledon was established by Scout Leader, Geetha Maheshwaran in Autumn 2012 .
School trips - Religious Education
The school is listed in Merton Council Directory as providing Hindu religious, social and cultural services for all ages, especially for schools to visit as part of... | 6,117,702 |
11562801 | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shree%20Ghanapathy%20Temple,%20Wimbledon | Shree Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon
d a Community Centre. Hence the interior has been a basic square shape. Reconstruction work began in early 2014, and is nearing completion in January 2015. It will be based more on the style of the traditional South Indian temples.
# External links.
- Ganapathy Temple
- Family Serv... | 6,117,703 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
John McGlashan College
John McGlashan College is a state integrated boarding school for boys, located in the suburb of Maori Hill in Dunedin, New Zealand. The school currently caters for students from years 7 to 13, including 120 boarders and up to 30 international students.
The school is named... | 6,117,704 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
College has two halls for boarding. Junior Hall (Ross House) is where the common room and bedrooms for year nine and ten boarders. Some housemasters also stay in Junior Hall. The newer Senior Hall (Balmacewen House) is where common rooms and bedrooms are for year 11, 12 and 13 boarders.
# Intern... | 6,117,705 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
state integrated Anglican girls' school St Hilda's Collegiate School, the girls took classes at McGlashan as it was the only other IB school in the South Island.
# International Exchanges.
John McGlashan College has a relationship with Ichikawa Gakuen, a large private school near Tokyo, Japan. ... | 6,117,706 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
tennis, hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, trapshooting, yachting, skiing, badminton and golf. The College is located next to the Balmacewen Golf Course, and the college encourages their students to join the golf club.
In recent years the College's 1st XV has been aided by an annual excha... | 6,117,707 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
are compulsory for students to participate in. The interhouse Minors competition consists of Golf, Tennis, Rugby sevens, Twenty20 Cricket, Soccer, Hockey, Table Tennis, Badminton and Volleyball. The houses are:
- Balmacewen (Red) - Named for Isabella MacEwen, John McGlashan's wife.
- Burns (Gol... | 6,117,708 |
11562743 | John McGlashan College | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20McGlashan%20College | John McGlashan College
– radiologist and historian
- Neil Begg – paediatrician, historian, and cricketer
- Tony Dodds – triathlete
- Eion Edgar – businessman and philanthropist
- Ron Elvidge – rugby union player
- Andrew Hore – rugby union player
- Hugo Inglis – field hockey player
- Robert Jopp – athlete
- Cla... | 6,117,709 |
11562864 | Tor Lundvall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor%20Lundvall | Tor Lundvall
Tor Lundvall
Tor Lundvall (born 1968 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is a painter and musician who is based out of East Hampton, New York.
# Art.
Lundvall has a B.A. in studio art with a minor in literature from the American University in Washington D.C. (1991). His oil paintings are quite vivid and luminous du... | 6,117,710 |
11562864 | Tor Lundvall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor%20Lundvall | Tor Lundvall
in New York and after creating the CD artwork for various musicians, including several projects for Tony Wakeford's dark folk group Sol Invictus (band).
Lundvall has also produced cover art for Gonzalo Rubalcaba's "Solo" CD (2006) and Miles Davis's "The Blue Note and Capitol Recordings" CD box-set reissue... | 6,117,711 |
11562864 | Tor Lundvall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor%20Lundvall | Tor Lundvall
Lundvall and could be categorized in the Industrial music genre, as it shared little in common musically with subsequent releases. At the time "Passing Through Alone" was only available at Lundvall's gallery showings, but is now available again through his website.
Lundvall's music came to prominence with... | 6,117,712 |
11562864 | Tor Lundvall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor%20Lundvall | Tor Lundvall
label Strange Fortune until November 2008. His major releases for Strange Fortune included "Last Light" (2004), "Empty City" (2006) and the "Yule" EP (2006). "Empty City" featured Lundvall's first attempt at an instrumental approach for an entire album. In 2009, Tor began working with another American labe... | 6,117,713 |
11562864 | Tor Lundvall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tor%20Lundvall | Tor Lundvall
l Dais Records, which released his albums "Sleeping and Hiding" (2009), "The Shipyard" (2012) and "The Park" (2015) in vinyl format. Dais Records also released three CD box sets by Lundvall, "The Seasons Unfold" (2011), "Structures and Solitude" (2013) and "Nature Laughs As Time Slips By (2016). All of Tor... | 6,117,714 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
Fish development
The development of fishes is unique in some specific aspects compared to the development of other animals.
# Cleavage.
Most bony fish eggs are referred to as telolecithal which means that most of the egg cell cytoplasm is yolk. The yolky end of the egg (the vegetal pole) remains hom... | 6,117,715 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
In fish, waves of calcium released direct the process of cell division by coordinating the mitotic apparatus with the actin cytoskeleton, propagating cell division along the surface, assists in deepening the cleavage furrow, and finally heals the membrane after separation of blastomeres.
The fate of t... | 6,117,716 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
begins and cell movements are observable. During this time three cell populations become distinguished. The first population is the yolk syncytial layer. This layer forms when the cells at the vegetal pole of the blastoderm combine with the yolk cell underneath it. Later in development the yolk syncyti... | 6,117,717 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
deep cells. These deep cells are located between the enveloping layer and the yolk syncytial layer and eventually give ride to the embryo proper.
# Germ layer formation.
Once blastoderm cells have covered almost half of the yolk cell, thickening throughout the margin of deep cells occurs. The thicken... | 6,117,718 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
deep cells (inner layer of cells) do and they become the mesoderm and endoderm. As the hypoblast cells move inward future mesoderm (hypoblast cells) start to move vegetally and proliferate but later in development these cells alter their direction and start moving towards the animal pole. However, endo... | 6,117,719 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
made in the ventral and lateral portions of the developing embryo. BMP2B induces cells to have ventral and lateral fates while factors such as chordin can block BMPs to dorsalize the tissue. Wnt8 induces ventral, lateral, and posterior regions of embryonic tissue. Wnt also has inhibitors like noggin to... | 6,117,720 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
in fishes than in most other chordates. Convergence and extension in the epiblast recruits presumptive neural cells from the epiblast towards the midline where they form a neural keel. A neural keel is a band of neural precursors that develops a slit like lumen to eventually become the neural tube. The... | 6,117,721 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
factors and intrinsic transcription factors. Extrinsic signals involved are BMP, Wnt, and FGF and intrinsic transcription factors like SoxB1 related genes. Secreted proteins such as BMP and its antagonist Noggin and chordin act permissively to establish the fate of neural tissue in the dorsal ectoderm ... | 6,117,722 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
gene lead to sex reversal from male to female. While this gene plays a major role in sex determination in some fish species other species have variations of this gene as well as some versions of the Sox gene as seen in zebrafish. Many species of fishes are hermaphrodites. Some, such as the painted comb... | 6,117,723 |
11562803 | Fish development | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish%20development | Fish development
le this gene plays a major role in sex determination in some fish species other species have variations of this gene as well as some versions of the Sox gene as seen in zebrafish. Many species of fishes are hermaphrodites. Some, such as the painted comber ("Serranus scriba"), are synchronous hermpahrod... | 6,117,724 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
Siege of Königsberg
The Siege of Königsberg was a siege laid upon Königsberg Castle, one of the main strongholds of the Teutonic Knights, by Prussians during the Great Prussian Uprising from 1262 possibly though 1265.
# History.
## Background.
Pagan Prussians rose against their conquerors, who t... | 6,117,725 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
Battle of Kalgen.
The Prussians had built small forts around Königsberg so that they could block any contact with the outside. Anno von Sangershausen, the Grand Master of the Knights, was working to provide relief to the starving garrison in Königsberg Castle. In January 1262 reinforcements arrived... | 6,117,726 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
had gone home to Sambia and Warmia. Stanteke, a Prussian scout loyal to the Knights, was wounded by Prussians after finding them hidden, but was able to escape to warn the Knights. Heavy fighting ensued southwest of Königsberg and the Prussians were driven into the village Kalgen. With the arrival o... | 6,117,727 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
Sambian leader, Nalube of Quednau, destroyed the initial settlement of Königsberg, later known as Steindamm, in 1262. Townspeople unable to reach safety in Königsberg Castle were slain or taken prisoner. The Knights had enough food and supply to last until Summer 1262 when they expected relief deliv... | 6,117,728 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
both the bridge and fort. Reinforcements for the Sambians came from Herkus Monte of the Natangians.
## End of the siege.
The conclusion of the siege is disputed. Königsberg historian Richard Armstedt wrote that the starving Knights decided to fight a final open battle, from which the Prussians ret... | 6,117,729 |
11562946 | Siege of Königsberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siege%20of%20Königsberg | Siege of Königsberg
that neither Armstedt nor historian Walther Franz provided a source for the final battle, and that the Teutonic chronicler Peter of Dusburg does not provide detail about it. Gause states the Prussians abandoned the siege in 1265, possibly having heard that Königsberg was to receive crusading reinfor... | 6,117,730 |
11562985 | Benjamin Le Fevre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Le%20Fevre | Benjamin Le Fevre
Benjamin Le Fevre
Benjamin Le Fevre (October 8, 1838 – March 7, 1922) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Ohio.
# Biography.
Born near Maplewood, Ohio, Le Fevre attended Miami University in 1858 and 1859 and studied law in Sidney, Ohio. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in... | 6,117,731 |
11562985 | Benjamin Le Fevre | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin%20Le%20Fevre | Benjamin Le Fevre
nt. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1865, was nominated a Democrat for Secretary of State of Ohio in 1866 and was United States consul in Nuremberg, Bavaria from 1867 to 1869. Le Fevre was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1878, serving from 18... | 6,117,732 |
11562987 | J. Keirn Brennan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Keirn%20Brennan | J. Keirn Brennan
J. Keirn Brennan
J. Keirn Brennan (November 24, 1873 – February 4, 1948) was an American songwriter. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914 and collaborated with many notable songwriters. He is probably best known for co-writing the 1929 film "The Show of Shows".
Born in San Francisco, Californi... | 6,117,733 |
11562987 | J. Keirn Brennan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Keirn%20Brennan | J. Keirn Brennan
Bird of Paradise", "I'll Follow the Trail", "You Hold My Heart", "Let the Rest of the World Go By" and "Ireland Is Ireland to Me".
He died in Hollywood, California.
# Other songs.
- "America Never Took Water and America Never Will" - 1919
- "For Dixie and Uncle Sam" - 1916. m: Ernest R. Ball
- "Go... | 6,117,734 |
11562987 | J. Keirn Brennan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J.%20Keirn%20Brennan | J. Keirn Brennan
a Never Will" - 1919
- "For Dixie and Uncle Sam" - 1916. m: Ernest R. Ball
- "Goodbye, Mother Machree" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
- "I Wish That He Was Back in Tipperary" - 1915. m: Ernest R. Ball
- "I'm from Ohio" - 1918. m: Ernest R. Ball
- "Never Let Yourself Forget You Are Irish Too" - 1915. m:... | 6,117,735 |
11562976 | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joaquín%20Albareda%20y%20Ramoneda | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda
Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda
Joaquín Anselmo María Albareda y Ramoneda, OSB (February 16, 1892 – July 19, 1966) was a Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962.
# Biography.
Joaq... | 6,117,736 |
11562976 | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joaquín%20Albareda%20y%20Ramoneda | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda
the Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome and the Faculty of Palaeography and Archives in Freiburg.
Returning to the Montserrat monastery, he served as its archivist from 1923 to 1936.
On June 19, 1936, Albareda was appointed Prefect of the Vatican Library by Pope Pius XI. He was made Titular Ab... | 6,117,737 |
11562976 | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joaquín%20Albareda%20y%20Ramoneda | Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda
"Gypsaria" on April 5, 1962. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 19 from Pope John, with Cardinals Giuseppe Pizzardo and Benedetto Aloisi Masella serving as co-consecrators, in the Lateran Basilica. Albareda stepped down as Titular Archbishop the next day, on April ... | 6,117,738 |
11563107 | Antarctic Polar Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antarctic%20Polar%20Front | Antarctic Polar Front
Antarctic Polar Front
Antarctic Polar Front may refer to:
- The Antarctic Convergence (Oceanography)
- The Polar Front commonly known as the "Antarctic Front" (Atmospheric Circulation / Meteorology) | 6,117,739 |
11563004 | Steve Israel (American football) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Israel%20(American%20football) | Steve Israel (American football)
Steve Israel (American football)
Steven Douglas Israel (born March 16, 1969) is a former American football cornerback.
# Career.
Israel grew up in Lawnside, New Jersey and played high school football at Haddon Heights High School.
He played college football at the University of Pitt... | 6,117,740 |
11563004 | Steve Israel (American football) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve%20Israel%20(American%20football) | Steve Israel (American football)
s Saints, and the Carolina Panthers. After ten years in the NFL, Israel is now a college football analyst on ESPNU, Fox Sports and has appeared on some local networks.
Israel founded the EndZone Luncheon Series and created the Gridiron Luncheon Series in Charlotte.
# Personal life.
I... | 6,117,741 |
11563087 | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael%20Uribe%20Uribe,%20Bogotá | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá
Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá
Rafael Uribe Uribe is the 18th locality of the Capital District in the Colombian capital Bogotá. This district is mostly inhabited by working and lower class residents. It was named after the Liberal General Rafael Uribe Uribe. Historically, it has been a predomina... | 6,117,742 |
11563087 | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael%20Uribe%20Uribe,%20Bogotá | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá
47 Sur and Calle 54 Sur and the locality of Usme. To the east, the locality borders with Carrera 10 and the Chiguaza Creek separating it from the locality of San Cristóbal and to the west with the Avenida 27 Sur and Carrera 33 bordering with the locality of Tunjuelito.
# History.
In 1991, t... | 6,117,743 |
11563087 | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael%20Uribe%20Uribe,%20Bogotá | Rafael Uribe Uribe, Bogotá
ucía, Calle 40 Sur, Quiroga and Olaya.
# Neighborhoods.
La Picota (where there is a prison with the same name), Quiroga (where the local cityhall is), Diana Turbay, Molinos, Libertador, Olaya, Gustavo Restrepo, Santa Lucia, Inglés, La Resurrección, Sosiego, Claret, San Jorge, Marco Fidel Su... | 6,117,744 |
11563035 | Jim Lyttle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Lyttle | Jim Lyttle
Jim Lyttle
James Lawrence Lyttle Jr. (born May 20, 1946) is a former American professional baseball player from Logan, Indiana. He played as an outfielder for the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos, and Los Angeles Dodgers of the Major League Baseball (MLB). He also played seven seasons of ... | 6,117,745 |
11563035 | Jim Lyttle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Lyttle | Jim Lyttle
history in his three seasons. He was named all-conference, all-sectional and all-regional each three times, while also achieving widespread acclaim in baseball. He chose a scholarship to Florida State University because it represented the chance to play basketball and baseball (he averaged 14.1 points as a f... | 6,117,746 |
11563035 | Jim Lyttle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Lyttle | Jim Lyttle
of the 1966 amateur draft by the New York Yankees. He made his major league debut with the Yankees in 1969, and recorded a .310 batting average in 87 games in 1970. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1971, and played in 42 games as a defensive backup with the White Sox before being sent off to various... | 6,117,747 |
11563035 | Jim Lyttle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Lyttle | Jim Lyttle
and Sachio Kinugasa. The Carp won consecutive league championships from 1979 to 1980, and Lyttle contributed immensely to the team's Japan Series victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes, where he was awarded the series MVP award. His strong arm won him the outfield Japanese golden glove award four years in a row... | 6,117,748 |
11563035 | Jim Lyttle | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Lyttle | Jim Lyttle
n him the outfield Japanese golden glove award four years in a row from 1978, and he played his best season in 1981, leading the league in hits while slugging 33 home runs and 100 RBIs, with a .318 batting average. He also played in 472 consecutive games until 1981. He played six total seasons with the Carp;... | 6,117,749 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
Magu (deity)
Magu () is a legendary Taoist "xian" () associated with the elixir of life, and a symbolic protector of females in Chinese mythology. Stories in Chinese literature describe Magu as a beautiful young woman with long birdlike fingernails, while early myths associate her with caves. "Magu xian s... | 6,117,750 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
example, hemp cords were used to create the characteristic line designs on Yangshao culture pottery and the fibres were used to produce cloth prior to the introduction of cotton. "Ma" has extended meanings of "numbed; tingling" (e.g., ), "pockmarked; pitted" (), "sesame" (), and an uncommon Chinese surname... | 6,117,751 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
"nigu" "Buddhist nun").
Translating Magu into English is problematic, depending upon whether her name is interpreted as a "maid", "priestess", or "goddess" of "hemp", "marijuana", or something else. Victor H. Mair (1990) proposed that Chinese "wu" ( "shaman"), pronounced *"myag" in Old Chinese, was a loan... | 6,117,752 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
sovereign." According to the Budoji, Korean mytho-history began with the "Era of Mago." Japanese Mako () is usually a literary reference to the Chinese story (below) about Magu's long fingernails, for instance, "Mako sōyō" ( "Magu scratches the itch") metaphorically means "things going like one imagined".
... | 6,117,753 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
center" near Nancheng () county in southwestern Jiangxi includes several place names, including two mountains. The famous Magu Shan ( "Magu Mountain") is located in Nancheng, and Taoists regard its Danxia Dong ( "Cinnabar Cloud Grotto"; see ) as the 28th of 36 sacred "dongtian" "Grotto-heavens, heaven-reac... | 6,117,754 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
Mountain in Xuancheng county of Anhui. Evidence for a secondary area for the Magu cult in Hubei includes the Song dynasty temple near Hankou, along with the Magu Temple on Mount Heng. Several early folktales from Sichuan province associate Magu with caves and one describes a shaman who invoked her. Regardi... | 6,117,755 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
of Magu mythology in his annotated translation of Ge Hong's "Shenxian zhuan" ( "Biographies of Divine immortals", ca. 317 CE). He compares four Chinese textual variations of Magu stories.
(1) The "Shenxian Zhuan" Daoist hagiography of Wang Yuan (, or Wang Fangping ) and Magu has the longest early descript... | 6,117,756 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
a decade", he suddenly returned home, looking like a young man, announced that Lord Wang would visit on the "seventh day of the seventh month" (later associated with the Cowherd and Weaver Girl lovers' festival), and ordered preparations for a feast. After Wang and his celestial entourage arrived on the au... | 6,117,757 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
island in the Eastern Sea, where the elixir of immortality grows), Ma arrived four hours later.
She appeared to be a handsome woman of eighteen or nineteen; her hair was done up, and several loose strands hung down to her waist. Her gown had a pattern of colors, but it was not woven; it shimmered, dazzlin... | 6,117,758 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
When the meat was sliced and served, [in flavor] it resembled broiled "mo", and was announced as "kirin" meat. br
Maid Ma declared: "Since I entered your service, I have seen the Eastern Sea turn to mulberry fields three times. As one proceeded across to Penglai, the water came only up to one's waist. I w... | 6,117,759 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
women in Cai's family, she transformed some rice into pearls as a trick to avoid the unclean influences of a recent childbirth. Then Wang presented Cai's family with a strong liquor from "the celestial kitchens", and warned that it was "unfit for drinking by ordinary people". Even after diluting the liquor... | 6,117,760 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
think that her nails could scratch your back!" The whip lashing Cai's back was the only thing visible; no one was seen wielding it. Wang added, "My whippings are not given without cause."
Some later versions of this legend say Ma was Wang's sister. The poet Li Bai immortalized two Classical Chinese expres... | 6,117,761 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
3rd century), attributed to Cao Pi (187-226 CE) has three stories about Wang Fangping.
The third gives a version of the incident of Cai Jing's inappropriate fantasy concerning Maid Ma and her luxuriant four-inch nails. Here, Cai Jing's home is located in Dongyang; he is not whipped but rather flung to the... | 6,117,762 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
a Temple to Maid Mei – or, as one version has it, Maid Ma – beside a lake. When alive, she had possessed arts of the Dao. She could walk on water in her shoes. Later she violated the laws of the Dao, and her husband, out of anger, murdered her and dumped her body in the lake. Following the current, it floa... | 6,117,763 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
in the area of the temple, and violators would always become lost or drown. Shamans said that it was because the Maid had suffered a painful death and hates to see other beings cruelly killed.
Campany reads this legend to describe founding a temple, probably on Lake Gongting, and translates these "shaman"... | 6,117,764 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
ate it with her companion Hua Ben ( "Flower Root"). When Ma started choking, Hua could see a snake flicking its tongue inside her mouth. She later enjoyed a meal at Hua's house, but upon learning that they had eaten snake meat, she vomited blood and died. Campany concludes:
This story hints at an even old... | 6,117,765 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
might be read as betraying these chthonic origins. Among these are Maid Ma's long nails, the featuring of meat dishes among the fantastic foods served by the travelling canteen, and the scene describing the "summoning" of Maid Ma, which is reminiscent of shamanic invocations of deities to attend spirit-wri... | 6,117,766 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
a dress with a collar made of leaves, but not of hemp, which only sometimes has developed, according to a late fashion into a cape of cloth.
The historian and sinologist Joseph Needham connected myths about Magu "the Hemp Damsel" with early Daoist religious usages of cannabis. "Cannabis sativa" is describ... | 6,117,767 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
Shangqing School of Daoism provides a good example. Yang Xi (330-c. 386 CE) was "aided almost certainly by cannabis" in writing the Shangqing scriptures during nightly visitations by Daoist "immortals". Tao Hongjing (456-536 CE), who edited the official Shangqing canon, also recorded ("Mingyi bielu" "Suppl... | 6,117,768 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
smokes, using techniques which arose directly out of liturgical observance. … At all events the incense-burner remained the centre of changes and transformations associated with worship, sacrifice, ascending perfume of sweet savour, fire, combustion, disintegration, transformation, vision, communication wi... | 6,117,769 |
11562983 | Magu (deity) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magu%20(deity) | Magu (deity)
and transformations associated with worship, sacrifice, ascending perfume of sweet savour, fire, combustion, disintegration, transformation, vision, communication with spiritual beings, and assurances of immortality. "Wai tan" and "nei tan" met around the incense-burner. Might one not indeed think of it as... | 6,117,770 |
11563148 | Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac | Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac
Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac
Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
# History.
The commune of Saint-Martin-de-Ribérac was created in 1851, when it was separated from the commune of Ribérac.
# See also.
- Communes of the Dordo... | 6,117,771 |
11563210 | Rajani Rai | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rajani%20Rai | Rajani Rai
Rajani Rai
Rajani Rai is a former Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry. She was governor from April 1998 to July 2002. She is from Nagpur and is an academic who belongs to a high-profile traditional jaiswal family.
# External links.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070928060840/http://www.pon.nic.in/open/gov... | 6,117,772 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
Westbrook station (Connecticut)
Westbrook is a regional rail station on the Northeast Corridor, located off Connecticut Route 153 just north of the village center of Westbrook, Connecticut. It is served by the Connecticut Department of Transportation's Shore Line East commuter rail serv... | 6,117,773 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
less than half a mile from I-95 and US-1, to serve as a park-and-ride station.
# History.
## New Haven Railroad.
The New Haven & New London Railroad was chartered in 1848, began construction in 1850, and opened for service in July 1852. A station was located on the north side of the t... | 6,117,774 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
at the original site, although it has been turned and moved slightly back from the tracks. A NYP&B emblem from the 1858-1862 ownership was formerly displayed on one end of the building.
The 1852 depot was replaced in 1905-06 by a station building similar to Mystic, no longer extant, loc... | 6,117,775 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
January 1, 1969, after the New Haven merged into Penn Central. The once-daily "Clamdigger" and "Beacon Hill" which continued to serve the route until 1981 did not stop at Westbrook due to its relatively small population and proximity to Old Saybrook. A siding north of the station buildin... | 6,117,776 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
The station was closed by 1923.
## Shore Line East.
The modern Westbrook station opened at the beginning of Shore Line East service on May 29, 1990. A small low-level platform and parking lot were located at the modern station location on the north side of the tracks. A small crossing ... | 6,117,777 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
15, 2001.
### New station.
The original 1990 Shore Line East stations were built before the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed and had low-level platforms that were not handicapped accessible. A 2003 agreement between the Connecticut Department of Transportation (which operates... | 6,117,778 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
Old Saybrook and Guilford were rebuilt in 2001 and 2005 with two platforms each. However, Westbrook was not rebuilt due to delays with a land swap between the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the town of Westbrook, which was necessary to allow the rebuilding.
The swap, in wh... | 6,117,779 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
site clearing to begin in November, and ground was broken for the $14.4 million station in January 2012.
After demolition work over the next several months, the new parking lot was graded in June 2012 and a temporary platform was constructed west of the old one. Construction of the 204-... | 6,117,780 |
11563108 | Westbrook station (Connecticut) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westbrook%20station%20(Connecticut) | Westbrook station (Connecticut)
uried concrete mass and utilities under the new station site. The new station was formally opened on March 25, 2014. Full bidirectional service to Westbrook began with the schedule change of May 11, 2014.
# Station layout.
Westbrook has two high-level side platforms. During the morning... | 6,117,781 |
11563169 | Yaowalak Traisurat | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaowalak%20Traisurat | Yaowalak Traisurat
Yaowalak Traisurat
Yaowalak Traisurat (; born 1 March 1984), nicknamed Jiab () is a beauty queen from Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, who won the Miss Thailand Universe pageant in 2003 and previously won the Miss Teen Thailand pageant in 2000.
# Biography.
Traisurat obtained a bachelor's degree fro... | 6,117,782 |
11563169 | Yaowalak Traisurat | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yaowalak%20Traisurat | Yaowalak Traisurat
# Pageantry.
Traisurat was crowned Miss Teen Thailand 2000 and Miss Thailand Universe on 29 March 2003.
After winning the Miss Thailand Universe title, she represented Thailand in the Miss Universe 2003 pageant held in Panama but did not place. The pageant was won by Amelia Vega of Dominican Republ... | 6,117,783 |
11563117 | Distinguishing attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distinguishing%20attack | Distinguishing attack
Distinguishing attack
In cryptography, a distinguishing attack is any form of cryptanalysis on data encrypted by a cipher that allows an attacker to distinguish the encrypted data from random data. Modern symmetric-key ciphers are specifically designed to be immune to such an attack. In other wor... | 6,117,784 |
11563117 | Distinguishing attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distinguishing%20attack | Distinguishing attack
where the transformation from plaintext to ciphertext is not random.
# Overview.
To prove that a cryptographic function is safe, it is often compared to a random oracle. If a function would be a random oracle, then an attacker is not able to predict any of the output of the function. If a functi... | 6,117,785 |
11563117 | Distinguishing attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distinguishing%20attack | Distinguishing attack
system to encrypt a message M of length n as the bitwise XOR of M and the next n bits of T or S respectively. The output of the encryption using T is truly random. Now if the sequence S cannot be distinguished from T, the output of the encryption with S will appear random as well. If the sequence ... | 6,117,786 |
11563117 | Distinguishing attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distinguishing%20attack | Distinguishing attack
of the system under attack with an unknown key, or a random object in the domain that the system aims to emulate, then if the algorithm is able to tell whether the system or the random object is in the black box, one has an attack. For example, a distinguishing attack on a stream cipher such as RC... | 6,117,787 |
11563117 | Distinguishing attack | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distinguishing%20attack | Distinguishing attack
or example, a distinguishing attack on a stream cipher such as RC4 might be one that determines whether a given stream of bytes is random or generated by RC4 with an unknown key.
# Examples.
Classic examples of distinguishing attack on a popular stream cipher was by Itsik Mantin and Adi Shamir w... | 6,117,788 |
11563128 | Tim Newton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Newton | Tim Newton
Tim Newton
Timothy Reginald Newton (born March 23, 1963) is an American former college and professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Newton played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, ... | 6,117,789 |
11563128 | Tim Newton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Newton | Tim Newton
he played for coach Charley Pell and coach Galen Hall's Florida Gators football teams from 1981 to 1984. As a senior in 1984, Newton was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection and a second-team All-American.
# Professional career.
The Minnesota Vikings selected Newton in the sixth round (... | 6,117,790 |
11563128 | Tim Newton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Newton | Tim Newton
NFL.
# See also.
- Florida Gators football, 1980–89
- History of the Minnesota Vikings
- List of Florida Gators football All-Americans
- List of Florida Gators football players in the NFL
- List of Kansas City Chiefs players
# Bibliography.
- Carlson, Norm, "University of Florida Football Vault: The ... | 6,117,791 |
11563128 | Tim Newton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim%20Newton | Tim Newton
lt: The History of the Florida Gators", Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia (2007). .
- Golenbock, Peter, "Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory", Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida (2002). .
- Hairston, Jack, "Tales from the Gator Swamp: A Collection of the ... | 6,117,792 |
11563239 | Richard Johnson (defensive back) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard%20Johnson%20(defensive%20back) | Richard Johnson (defensive back)
Richard Johnson (defensive back)
Richard James Johnson (born September 16, 1963) is a former American football cornerback who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers. He was an All-American and All-Big Ten cornerback in 1984 while at the Univer... | 6,117,793 |
11563248 | Operation Accumulator | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Accumulator | Operation Accumulator
Operation Accumulator
Operation Accumulator was an Allied naval operation near the Channel Islands on the night of 12/13 June 1944, in support of Operation Overlord, the invasion of France.
As part of Operation Fortitude, a series of deception operations had been used to divert attention from th... | 6,117,794 |
11563248 | Operation Accumulator | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Accumulator | Operation Accumulator
of the Cotentin Peninsula. The desired effect would be to force the German command to pull units from the front line and redeploy them to protect the western coast.
The plan was for two Royal Canadian Navy destroyers, "Haida" and "Huron", to make a series of fake radio transmissions, which would ... | 6,117,795 |
11563248 | Operation Accumulator | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation%20Accumulator | Operation Accumulator
to continue alone; the two ships were also spotted by an Allied reconnaissance plane, which radioed back that it had found "unidentified warships".
The operation was a failure; whilst the signals were made, there was no reaction from the German force. This may have been helped by the Allied air r... | 6,117,796 |
11563260 | Inna Makarova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inna%20Makarova | Inna Makarova
Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova () (born July 28, 1926 in Tayga) is a Soviet Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the State Film Actor Theater (). In 1949, she was awarded th... | 6,117,797 |
11563260 | Inna Makarova | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inna%20Makarova | Inna Makarova
. In 1985, she was awarded the designation of People's Artist of the USSR. Inna Makarova was married to Sergei Bondarchuk and is the mother of Natalya Bondarchuk.
# Selected filmography.
- "It Happened in the Donbass" (1945)
- "The Young Guard" (1948)
- "The Return of Vasili Bortnikov" (1953)
- "The ... | 6,117,798 |
11563329 | Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silent%20Majority%20(Terry%20Allen's%20Greatest%20Missed%20Hits) | Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)
Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)
Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits) is an album by artist Terry Allen in 1992. The liner notes describe the album as follows: “It is a compilation of out-takes, in-takes, mis-takes, work tapes, ad... | 6,117,799 |
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