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441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
molecular biology's pioneers were held in 1951, 1953, 1956, 1961, 1963, and 1966.
- At the CSH Symposium in summer 1953, Watson made the first public presentation of DNA's double-helix structure.
# Contemporary research.
- In 1973, Richard J. Roberts begins development and dissemination... | 6,128,800 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
team develops technology to generate libraries of short-hairpin RNAs (shRNAs), giving researchers the ability to switch genes on and off in living cells;
- In 2004, Wigler and Jonathan Sebat discover that enhancements and deletions of genetic material called copy number variations are com... | 6,128,801 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and Nick Navin perform the first genomic profile of single cancer cells from a patient's tumor;
- In 2011, Christopher Vakoc discovers an important new drug target, BRD4, for a lethal form of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML);
- In 2014, Phase 3 trials begin for drug to treat spinal muscu... | 6,128,802 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
synaptic communication function.
# Leadership.
In 1962, the Department of Genetics, no longer supported by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, formally merged with the Biological Laboratory to form the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology. In 1970, the name was simpl... | 6,128,803 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Watson initiated a major push to scale-up CSHL research on the brain and psychiatric disorders, beginning in the late 1980s. In 1990, work was completed on the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory, and the Marks Neuroscience Building was opened in 1999. In 1994, Watson ceased being director... | 6,128,804 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1994 biochemist and cancer biologist Bruce Stillman has led the Laboratory as director, and since 2003 as president. Stillman, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society, also continues to run a basic research lab, devoted to the study of DNA replication... | 6,128,805 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
With construction completed on six linked laboratory buildings on the Hillside Campus in 2009, CSHL added much-needed new laboratory space for cancer and neuroscience research, as well as space for a new program on quantitative biology to bring experts in mathematics, computer science, sta... | 6,128,806 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(SMA).
- Robert Martienssen, studies epigenetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
- Bruce Stillman, molecular biologist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, EMBO and AAAS.
- Michael Wigler, genetic ... | 6,128,807 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Barbara McClintock, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.
## Nobel Prize winners.
- Carol Greider, discovered relationship between cellular aging and damage to the ends of ch... | 6,128,808 |
441300 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cold%20Spring%20Harbor%20Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
enetic material in 1952; won Nobel Prize with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück in 1969
- James D. Watson, CSHL Director from 1968 to 1993, shared a Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
- Richard J. Roberts and... | 6,128,809 |
441329 | LZ | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LZ | LZ
LZ
LZ may refer to:
# Computing.
- .lz, a filename extension for an lzip archive
- Abraham Lempel (born 1936) and Jacob Ziv (born 1931), Israeli computer scientists:
- Lempel-Ziv, prefix for family of data compression algorithms, sometimes used as beginning for file name extensions
- Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain al... | 6,128,810 |
441329 | LZ | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LZ | LZ
algorithms, sometimes used as beginning for file name extensions
- Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
# Aviation.
- Republic of Bulgaria (aviation code)
- Balkan Bulgarian Airlines IATA code (1947-2002)
- Swiss Global Air Lines IATA code (2005-2018)
- Landing zone, an area where aircraft can land
- LZ-, prefix... | 6,128,811 |
441323 | JA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JA | JA
JA
JA, Ja, jA, or ja may refer to:
# Arts and entertainment.
- "Ja" (novel), original German title of the novel "Yes", by Thomas Bernhard
- JA (TV series), a Danish television show
- Ja Rule, an American rapper
# Businesses and organizations.
- Jamiat Ahle Hadith a political party in Pakistan
- Japan Agricul... | 6,128,812 |
441323 | JA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JA | JA
Ja, meaning "I" in many Slavic languages
- Я (Ya), a Cyrillic letter, pronounced /ja/
- Japanese language (ISO 639-1 alpha-2 code JA)
- Ja (Indic), a glyph in the Brahmic family of scripts
- Ja (Javanese) (ꦗ), a letter in the Javanese script
# Science and technology.
- "Ja" (genus), a genus of beetles in the f... | 6,128,813 |
441323 | JA | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JA | JA
SO 639-1 alpha-2 code JA)
- Ja (Indic), a glyph in the Brahmic family of scripts
- Ja (Javanese) (ꦗ), a letter in the Javanese script
# Science and technology.
- "Ja" (genus), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae
- Chrysler JA platform, a platform of vehicles made by Chrysler
- Jasmonic acid, a plant hor... | 6,128,814 |
441331 | KL | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KL | KL
KL
KL, kL, kl, or kl. may refer to:
# Businesses and organizations.
- KLM, a Dutch airline (IATA airline designator KL)
- Koninklijke Landmacht, the Royal Netherlands Army
- Kvenna Listin ("Women's List"), a political party in Iceland
- KL FM, a Malay language-regional radio station operated by Radio lllTelevi... | 6,128,815 |
441331 | KL | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KL | KL
y (license plate code KL)
- Kerala, India (ISO 3166-2:IN subcode KL)
- Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Science, technology, and mathematics.
- KL engine, version of the Mazda K engine
- Klepton (kl.), a type of species in zoology
- Kiloliter (kL), a unit of volume
- Kullback–Leibler... | 6,128,816 |
441326 | VK | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VK | VK
VK
VK may refer to:
- VK (service), a Russian social network
- VK Mobile, a Korean mobile phone manufacturer
- Akai VK, a portable helical scan EIA video VTR
- Holden VK Commodore, a model of GM Holden's Commodore car, produced from 1984 to 1986
- Vasant Kunj, an upmarket residential colony in South West Delhi... | 6,128,817 |
441326 | VK | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VK | VK
work
- VK Mobile, a Korean mobile phone manufacturer
- Akai VK, a portable helical scan EIA video VTR
- Holden VK Commodore, a model of GM Holden's Commodore car, produced from 1984 to 1986
- Vasant Kunj, an upmarket residential colony in South West Delhi, India
- Virat Kohli, an Indian cricketer born (1988)
-... | 6,128,818 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes
Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (December 15, 1944 – December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peop... | 6,128,819 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
Bom Futuro, outside of Xapuri, a small town in the state of Acre. He was the son of a second-generation rubber tapper, Francisco Mendes, and his wife, Iracê. Chico was one of 17 siblings—only six of whom survived childhood.
At age 9, Chico began work as a rubber tapper alongside his father. At the time, t... | 6,128,820 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
severe lack of education. Schools were frequently forbidden on and near plantations, as the owners did not want the workers to be able to read and do arithmetic. For this reason, Mendes did not learn to read until he was 18 years old, when he sought out help interpreting his bills.
Mendes was taught to re... | 6,128,821 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
teacher in hopes of educating his community. As his fellow workers became more aware of unjust treatment, they formed the Rural Workers’ Union, and the more localized Xapuri Rubber Tappers Union. Both of these organizations worked through peaceful protest to stop the logging and burning of the rainforest t... | 6,128,822 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
also used a very effective technique they called the 'empate' where rubber tappers blocked the way into rubber reserves, preventing their destruction.
The Rubber Tappers' Union was created in 1975 in the nearby town of Brasileia, with Wilson Pinheiro elected as the union's president and Mendes as its secr... | 6,128,823 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
country came. The discussion expanded from the threats to their own livelihoods to the larger issues of road paving, cattle ranching, and deforestation. The meeting also caught the attention of the international environmentalist movement, giving the rubber tappers a larger audience for their grievances. Th... | 6,128,824 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
Mendes, which aired in 1990.
Mendes believed that relying on rubber tapping alone was not sustainable, and that the "seringueiros" needed to develop more holistic, cooperative systems that used a variety of forest products, such as nuts, fruit, oil, and fibers; and that they needed to focus on building st... | 6,128,825 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
Program Global 500 Roll of Honor Award in 1987, and the National Wildlife Federation's National Conservation Achievement Award in 1988.
In 1988 a man named Darly Alves da Silva bought part of a rubber reserve called Cachoeira, where relatives of Mendes lived, and which was affiliated to the local Rural Wo... | 6,128,826 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
wanted demarcated as an extractive reserve. Mendes not only managed to stop the planned deforestation and create the reserve, but also gained a warrant for Darly's arrest for a murder committed in another state, Paraná. He delivered the warrant to the federal police, but it was never acted upon.
# Assassi... | 6,128,827 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
one week after Mendes' 44th birthday, when he had predicted he would "not live until Christmas".
Around his birthday, the gunmen who had been observing him disappeared completely. Their absence gave the community a sense of impending doom, as they had been constantly present since May of the same year. Th... | 6,128,828 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
Federal Police in his death were ignored.
In December 1990, da Silva, his son Darci, and their employee Jerdeir Pereira were sentenced to 19 years in prison for their part in Mendes' assassination. In February 1992, they won a retrial, claiming that the prosecution's primary witness (Mendes' wife) was bia... | 6,128,829 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
for the rubber tappers' and environmental movements. In March 1989, a third meeting was held for the National Council of Rubber Tappers, and the Alliance of Forest Peoples was created to protect rubber tappers, rural workers, and indigenous peoples from encroachment on traditional lands.
# Post-assassinat... | 6,128,830 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
for Mendes’ activism.
## Grassroots organizing.
The National Council of Rubber Tappers was founded in 1985 by Mendes and other union members; in March 1989, three months after Mendes’ murder, the council held their third meeting. The Council issued twenty-seven demands on environmental and human rights p... | 6,128,831 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
future economy of their communities, and must be preserved for the whole Brazilian nation as part of its identity and self-esteem. This Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest, bringing together Indians, rubber tappers, and riverbank communities, and founded here in Acre, embraces all efforts to protect and ... | 6,128,832 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
protecting rubber tappers, rural workers, and Indigenous peoples from encroachment on traditional lands, and this group also found new footholds in the wake of Mendes’ murder. This political leverage gave the people of the forest (largely rubber tappers and Indigenous people) access to important victories.... | 6,128,833 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
government.
The years after Mendes’ murder also saw a focus on Mendes’ personal advocacy projects. One of Mendes’ main ideas, and a lasting impact of his life and activism, is Brazil’s extractive reserves - forest land set aside by the Brazilian government to be managed cooperatively by locals, who keep i... | 6,128,834 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
the Brazilian government agreed to create extractive reserves and to demarcate Indian lands. The increased local support for Mendes’ activism also saw several of Mendes’ co-campaigners were elected to important government offices over the next decade, which created a more receptive environment for legislat... | 6,128,835 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
named after him.
## The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve.
Following his death, the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve was created in March 12, 1990 with the intention of maintaining sustainability of resources within the Amazon forests. The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve is the largest extractive reserve wi... | 6,128,836 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
band Maná, from the album "Cuando los Ángeles Lloran" (1995).
- "How Many People" by Paul McCartney, from the album "Flowers in the Dirt" (1989).
- "Sacred Ground" by hard rock band Living Colour, from the album "Pride" (1995).
- "Xapurí" by Clare Fischer, from the album "Lembranças (Remembrances)" (199... | 6,128,837 |
441303 | Chico Mendes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chico%20Mendes | Chico Mendes
from the album "Roots" (1996).
- "The Tallest Tree" by Roy Harper, from the album "Death or Glory" (1992).
## Film.
- Mendes was portrayed by Raul Julia in the 1994 telemovie "The Burning Season".
# See also.
- Dorothy Stang
- Environment of Brazil
- List of peace activists
- Rubber tree
- Vicente... | 6,128,838 |
441333 | JY | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JY | JY
JY
Jy or JY may refer to:
# People.
- Jimmy Young (broadcaster) (born 1921), former BBC radio broadcaster
- James Young (American musician) (born 1949), guitarist for Styx
- Joey Yung (born 1980), Hong Kong cantopop singer
- Kang Ji-young (born 1994), South Korea actress and singer
# Other uses.
- Air Turks ... | 6,128,839 |
441334 | EX | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EX | EX
EX
EX, Ex or The Ex may refer to:
# Film and television.
- "Ex" (2009 film), a comedy directed by Fausto Brizzi
- "The Ex" (1997 film), a Canadian thriller film by Mark L. Lester
- "The Ex" (2006 film), a comedy film
- TV Asahi or EX, a TV station in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
- "Ex" (2010 film), a 2010 Hong Kong... | 6,128,840 |
441334 | EX | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EX | EX
ex (typography), a unit of distance
# Mathematics.
- Exponential function or "e"
- Expected value or E(X)
- ex (function prefix) or exterior, a prefix for some trigonometric functions in mathematics
- EX (calculator key), a key to enter numbers in scientific or engineering notation
# Other sciences.
- Extinct... | 6,128,841 |
441334 | EX | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EX | EX
scription (in zoological author citations, the author providing the valid formal description precedes the author of the informally recognized description)
# Other uses.
- Ex (relationship), someone with whom a person was once associated, often romantically
- The Ex (target), a mannequin gun target
- EX postcode ... | 6,128,842 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
Margaret Frazer
Margaret Frazer, born Gail Lynn Brown (November 26, 1946 – February 4, 2013), was an American historical novelist, best known for more than twenty historical mystery novels and a variety of short stories. The pen name was originally shared by Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld in the... | 6,128,843 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
the medieval actor Joliffe.
Frazer was born and grew up in Kewanee, Illinois. An actress and member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, she lived and worked in Elk River, Minnesota. Frazer died February 4, 2013 from breast cancer, aged 66.
# Overview.
The first six "Dame Frevisse" mysteries were... | 6,128,844 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
of the novels are set entirely at the priory and/or village; in others Frevisse leaves the convent, either to accompany another nun on some family or convent business or on business of her own. Many of the novels have the quality of "English village" murder mysteries, in which we see at close hand the e... | 6,128,845 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
though there is always a murder for her to solve.
Dame Frevisse is related to Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the "Canterbury Tales", by her aunt's marriage to Geoffrey's son, Thomas Chaucer. Titles of the Frevisse novels follow the format of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, e.g., "The Novice's Tale," "The Prio... | 6,128,846 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
this is followed by a change to Frevisse's perspective, which dominates the novel, though we return from time to time to the point of view of the title character. The role of the title character varies from book to book: murderer, victim, a person in power or a victim of others’ power. Seven of the titl... | 6,128,847 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
marriage) Thomas Chaucer, son of the poet, provides a contact point with historical events as he brings news of the world to St. Frideswide's; at his funeral ("The Bishop’s Tale"), Frevisse establishes a relationship with her cousin Alice Chaucer, who is, in her third marriage, united to William de la P... | 6,128,848 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
appears is Joliffe, a man with a mysterious past.
Frazer's second set of mysteries, also set in 15th-century England, feature "Joliffe the Player", a spin-off character from the Dame Frevisse series, appearing first in "The Servant's Tale" and crossing paths with Frevisse again in "The Prioress's Tale"... | 6,128,849 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
"A Play of Lords", Joliffe is recruited as a spy for Bishop Beaufort and becomes involved in the political intrigues leading up to the Wars of the Roses. The fifth book, "A Play of Treachery," takes him away from the players to France on behalf of Bishop Beaufort. When Joliffe again crosses paths with D... | 6,128,850 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
and a toxic narcissist against everyone else. Playing the atypical role of a servant to the nursing sisters who run the hospital in open defiance of those who would dominate them, Joliffe solves the mystery.
Margaret Frazer was a Herodotus award winner, two-time Minnesota Book Award nominee, and two-ti... | 6,128,851 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
11. "The Clerk's Tale" (2002)
- 12. "The Bastard's Tale" (2003)
- 13. "The Hunter's Tale" (2004)
- 14. "The Widow's Tale" (2005)
- 15. "The Sempster's Tale" (2006)
- 16. "The Traitor's Tale" (2007)
- 17. "The Apostate's Tale" (2008)
## Joliffe series.
- 1. "A Play of Isaac" (2004)
- 2. "A Play ... | 6,128,852 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
Tale" (1995)
- 6. "Volo te Habere" (2000)
- 7. "A Traveller's Tale" (2000)
- 8. "This World's Eternity" (2002)
- 9. "That Same Pit" (1998) (retitled "Shakespeare's Mousetrap" in 2010 for Kindle)
- 10. "The Death of Kings" (1997)
- 11. "The Stone-Worker's Tale" (2005)
- 12. "Winter Heart" (2011)
... | 6,128,853 |
441309 | Margaret Frazer | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret%20Frazer | Margaret Frazer
(2012)
## Awards.
The second in her Dame Frevisse series, "The Servant's Tale" received a nomination at the 1994 Edgar Awards in the "Best Paperback Original" category. The following year "The Bishop's Tale" received a "Best Novel" nomination at the 1995 Minnesota Book Awards convention. She was next ... | 6,128,854 |
441311 | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Eugen,%20Duke%20of%20Närke | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
Prince Eugen Napoleon Nicolaus of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Närke (1 August 1865 – 17 August 1947) was a Swedish painter, art collector and patron of artists.
# Background.
Prince Eugen was born at Drottningholm Palace as the fourth and youngest son of Prince ... | 6,128,855 |
441311 | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Eugen,%20Duke%20of%20Närke | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
visited Christiania (later known as Oslo). His letters show that he preferred its artistic milieu to the more constrained Stockholm one. His most notable Norwegian friends were the painters Erik Werenskiold and Gerhard Munthe; he remained attached to them and to Norway until his death.
On 2... | 6,128,856 |
441311 | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Eugen,%20Duke%20of%20Närke | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
however, refused to allow any of his sons to ascend the Norwegian throne.
Prince Eugen was the only Swede represented at an exhibition in Oslo in 1904. The explanation was that he was a prince of Norway until 1905 and that his relations with the Norwegian artists caused him to be seen as No... | 6,128,857 |
441311 | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Eugen,%20Duke%20of%20Närke | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
landscape painters. He was first trained in painting by Hans Gude and Wilhelm von Gegerfelt. Between 1887 and 1889, he studied in Paris under Léon Bonnat, Alfred Philippe Roll, Henri Gervex and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Puvis de Chavannes's classical simplicity had the greatest influence on... | 6,128,858 |
441311 | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince%20Eugen,%20Duke%20of%20Närke | Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
most prominent landscape painters. He was mainly interested in the lake Mälaren, the countryside of Stockholm (such as Tyresö, where he spent his summers), Västergötland (most notably Örgården, another summer residence) and Skåne (especially Österlen).
# Death and legacy.
Prince Eugen boug... | 6,128,859 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
Frithuswith
Saint Frithuswith (c. 65019 October 727; ; also known as Frideswide, Frideswith, Fritheswithe, Frevisse, or simply Fris) was an English princess and abbess. She is credited with establishing a religious site later incorporated into Christ Church in Oxford – Frithuswith was the first abbess of t... | 6,128,860 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
are included in the "South English Legendary". The accounts differ slightly in their story. The shorter tale recounts that Frithuswith was born to Didan (an Anglo-Saxon sub-king) and his wife Safrida around 650. With the help of her father, Frithuswith founded a priory (now called Priory of St Frideswide, O... | 6,128,861 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
Fritheswith flees to Oxford. There she finds a ship sent by God which takes her to Bampton. Meanwhile, the King searches for her in Oxford, but the people refuse to tell him where she is. When he has searched the whole town but cannot find her, he becomes blind. In the shorter version, Frithuswith hides in ... | 6,128,862 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
and many people come to seek it out. This well can still be found today at the Church of Saint Margaret in Binsey, a few miles up river from Oxford.
Frithuswith remained abbess of the Oxford monastery, where she was later buried, until her death in about 727.
# The priory.
St Frideswide's Priory, a medie... | 6,128,863 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
in Frithuswith's honour; later a monastery was built there for Augustinian canons. The authority on the subject, Dr. John Blair of Queen's College, Oxford, believes that Christ Church Cathedral is built on the site of her Saxon church.
In 1180, the Archbishop of Canterbury Richard of Dover translated Frith... | 6,128,864 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
Queen Mary in 1558, but was later desecrated by James Calfhill, the Calvinist canon of the church, who was intent on suppressing her cult. As a result, Frithuswith's remains were mixed with those of Catherine Dammartin, wife of Peter Martyr Vermigli, and they remain so to this day.
# In modern tradition.
... | 6,128,865 |
441321 | Frithuswith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frithuswith | Frithuswith
. Her feast day is 19 October, the traditional day of her death; the date of her translation is also commemorated on 12 February. In art, she is depicted holding the pastoral staff of an abbess, a fountain springing up near her and an ox at her feet. The fountain probably represents the holy well at Binsey.... | 6,128,866 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language; more recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts to popularise philosophy.
He retired as the... | 6,128,867 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
full-time at the University of North Carolina as an Edna J. Koury Professor. He is a former president of the Aristotelian Society, having served the 2009–2010 term. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002 and a Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008.
H... | 6,128,868 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
philosophy, he is best known as the proponent of quasi-realism in meta-ethics and as a defender of neo-Humean views on a variety of topics. He is a former editor of the journal "Mind". He makes occasional appearances in the British media, such as on BBC Radio 4's "The Moral Maze". Blackburn was elected ... | 6,128,869 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
published in "The Guardian" in September 2010, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK, and has argued that "religionists" should have less influence in political affairs. At the same time, he has also argued, in a televised debate, against the position of the antitheist au... | 6,128,870 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
A defence of a NeoHumean theory of reasons and moral motivation. .
- "Truth" (1999) (edited with Keith Simmons) – from Oxford Readings in Philosophy series. .
- "". (1999) and .
- "Being Good" (2001) – an introduction to ethics. .
- Reprinted as "Ethics: A Very Short Introduction" in Oxford Universi... | 6,128,871 |
441332 | Simon Blackburn | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simon%20Blackburn | Simon Blackburn
ven Deadly Sins. .
- "Truth: A Guide" (2005). .
- "Plato's Republic: A Biography" (2006) – from Atlantic Books' Books That Shook the World series. .
- "How to read Hume" (2008) – Granta Publications. .
- "What do we really know? -The Big Questions of Philosophy" – (2009) from Quercus. .
- "Mirror, ... | 6,128,872 |
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8th Armored Division (United States)
The 8th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that served in the European Theater of World War II.
# History.
## Stateside.
The successes of the German armored units in Poland and France underscored America's need... | 6,128,873 |
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of the gold vault at Fort Knox. From 1942 to 1944 it functioned as a training command stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana. During this period the 8th supplied trained personnel to the 9th through 14th Armored Divisions. In September 1943 the division completed reorganization from the ... | 6,128,874 |
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flexible formation.
During December 1943, the division participated in the D Series of exercises in Texas. The D Series were small scale maneuver problems designed as a precursor to the full scale Sixth Louisiana Maneuver Period. The D Series included exercises to simulate contact ... | 6,128,875 |
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their replacements. At the end of October the 8th received movement orders to Camp Kilmer, New York in preparation for shipment overseas. On 6 November 1944 the division left Camp Kilmer and boarded ships in New Jersey for the United Kingdom. The ships arrived in Southampton on 18 N... | 6,128,876 |
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placed in reserve. In mid-January the division was seconded to the Third Army and raced across France through heavy snow and ice to Pont-à-Mousson to help stem the German drive for Strasbourg, part of the German Operation Nordwind It was at this point that the division was assigned ... | 6,128,877 |
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aimed at reducing the salient between the Saar and Moselle Rivers.
## Belgium and The Netherlands.
Nennig and Berg were defended by elements of the German 11th Panzer Division; specifically the 110th, 111th and elements of the 774th Panzer Grenadier Regiments. German losses in act... | 6,128,878 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
as well as heavy personnel casualties. The week's action resulted in the loss of 50% of the personnel the 110th and 111th Panzer-Grenadier Divisions had brought into the Saar-Moselle triangle.
The division moved to Simpelveld, the Netherlands for rest and refitting absorbing approx... | 6,128,879 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
The Roer to the Rhine.
On 27 February, 8th Armored crossed the Roer River via the Hilfarth Bridge which had been captured by the 35th Infantry Division. CCA headed for the town of Wegberg. CCB moved through Sittard, Gangelt, Geilenkirchen, Randerath, and Brachelen to arrive at the ... | 6,128,880 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
night to bridge the Niers River which was holding up the advance on Moers.
3 March CCB moved through CCA area and captured Aldekerk while CCR captured Saint Hubert, Vinnbruck and Saelhuysen in their advance toward Moers. The Division received orders to cease forward movement as it ... | 6,128,881 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
divisional casualties and the loss of 41 tanks while the Germans suffered 350 men killed and 512 taken prisoner. The area (nicknamed '88 Lane') was under direct anti-tank and heavy artillery fire so each house had to be cleared by dismounted infantry. By 7 March a foothold was secur... | 6,128,882 |
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rest area, the relief being completed on 10 and 11 March.
The division was assigned to cleanup operations in the rear areas of the Rhineland which had been bypassed during the movement to the Rhine River. During this period the division became the first US or British unit to uncove... | 6,128,883 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
crossing of the Rhine River to be made by the 30th Infantry Division.
## The Rhine to the Ruhr.
On 24 March 18 Tank Bn of the 8th Armored Division was ferried across in support of the 30th Infantry prior to the Division's crossing. An 18th tank was the first across the Rhine in th... | 6,128,884 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
house fighting slowed the attack. New orders were received late in the next day to capture Dorsten so that the Lippe River could be bridged allowing armor to move northward.
In the meantime, CCR, located near Bruckhausen launched an attack on Zweckel and Kirchhellen to the south on... | 6,128,885 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
join CCR in their advance to the east towards the town of Marl. Marl was cleared by nightfall. CCA then swung southeast from Dorsten heading for Polsum. CCR attacked and captures the towns of Scholven and Feldhausen. On 29 March the German 180th Volks Grenadier Division and the 116t... | 6,128,886 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
only away.
On 31 March the division was relieved by units of the 75th Inf. Div. The 8th crossed the Lippe River, and assembled at Selm. The 8th received orders on 1 April from XIX Corps to set up two spearheads for an attack to the east, the 2nd Armored and 30th Infantry in one and... | 6,128,887 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
a strong German counterattack launched from Sennelager. CCA attacked Sennelager directly in an attempt to reduce a German strongpoint.
At the end of 3 April the division was relieved by the 83rd Inf. Div. and received orders to attack towards the west to help reduce the Ruhr Pocket... | 6,128,888 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
Recklinghausen. CCR captured the towns of Stripe and Norddorf, and continued through Vollinghausen, Oberhagen, and Ebbinghausen before stopping for the night in front of Horne. The next day CCA attacked Erwitte. The US 9th Air Force continued to provide close air support as the divi... | 6,128,889 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
of Schallen and Lohne while CCA continued attacking south capturing the towns of Anroechte, Mensel, Drewer, and Altenruthen. On 6 April, CCB made a 'end run' around Soest to the outskirts of Ost Onnen to cut off a German breakout path from the Ruhr pocket.
While CCB blocked the Ger... | 6,128,890 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
the westward movement of the 8th Armored created a gap of between the two fronts. This would allow German forces to briefly cut off the US 2nd Armored. Troop A, 88th Reconnaissance Squadron captured the Moehne Talsperre Dam on the 7th to prevent the Germans from flooding the Moehne ... | 6,128,891 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
resistance during the day. They then captured Ost Buederich by the end of the day.
By 9 April, The threat of a German breakout had passed due to the buildup of allied troops in the area. CCB moved on Unna capturing Holtun and Hemmerude. The following day CCB continued the attack on... | 6,128,892 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
The next day CCR captured Hohenheide and Fröndenberg after an air strike drove 4 German tanks out of the town. The town of Billmerich was also captured. Unna finally fell that afternoon after another air strike. The Germans lost 160 personnel, 2 tanks and a battery of 88's. This sur... | 6,128,893 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
flank of the 2nd Armored and the 83rd Inf. Div. as they moved east. They move to Wolfenbüttel. Later CCR was relieved and ordered to move to the vicinity of Denstorf. On the drive west, CCR suffered 203 casualties and lost 11 tanks, 3 jeeps, 9 halftracks. The German forces lost 6 Ma... | 6,128,894 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
the remaining units of the Division began moving to an assembly area in the vicinity of Braunschweig with CCA going to Wolfenbüttel and CCR going to Denstorf.
For the period of 15–18 April CCB cleared the area near the Hartz Mountains of remnants of the 11th Panzer Army while CCA b... | 6,128,895 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
and returned to Wernigerode from Seehausen where it in turn relieved the 330th Inf. Reg. of the 83rd Inf. Div. CCB moved to Westerhausen and CCR moved to Aspenstedt to clear the remaining woods around Blankenburg. The next day the division began to attack Blankenburg. At 1000 hours ... | 6,128,896 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
elements of the 1st Inf. Div. of the First Army. By 22 April the last organized resistance ended with the capture of Gen. Heinz Kokott, commanding officer of the 26th Volks Grenadier Div and brother-in-law of Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler.
During the period of 23 April through 8 M... | 6,128,897 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
the city of Halberstadt housed a number of Buchenwald subcamps that had been established in 1944 to provide labor for the German war effort, including Halberstadt-Zwieberge I and Halberstadt-Zwieberge II. More than 5,000 inmates were incarcerated in these two subcamps, where they we... | 6,128,898 |
441236 | 8th Armored Division (United States) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8th%20Armored%20Division%20(United%20States) | 8th Armored Division (United States)
in stone quarries, and on construction projects. Periodically, prisoners throughout the Buchenwald camp system underwent selection. The SS staff sent those too weak or disabled to continue working to the Bernburg or Sonnenstein euthanasia killing centers, where they were killed by g... | 6,128,899 |
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