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441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
five years as its producer and head writer, developed the first "in-the-lens" prompter and was awarded U.S. patents for its creation. This system uses a mirror to reflect a script onto a piece of glass placed in front of the camera lens, thus allowing the reader to look directly into the camera. First used... | 6,129,300 |
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camera hardware ran on the Atari 800 Personal Computer, which featured smooth hardware-assisted scrolling. Their company later became ProPrompt, Inc., which is still providing teleprompting services over 32 years later. Other paper-based teleprompting companies Electronic Script Prompting, QTV and Telescri... | 6,129,301 |
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used by the TelePrompTer Company, which first developed the device in the 1950s. The word "teleprompter", with no capitalization, has become a genericized trademark, because it is used to refer to similar systems manufactured by many different companies. The United States Patent Office does not have any li... | 6,129,302 |
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Television.
Modern teleprompters for news programs consist of a personal computer, connected to video monitors on each professional video camera. In certain systems, the PC connects to a separate display device to offer greater flexibility in setup, distances and cabling. The monitors are often black-and-... | 6,129,303 |
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names) are spelled out phonetically, as are other particulars like "Nine-eleven" (to specify that the event 9/11 should not be pronounced "nine-one-one", for example).
With the development of inexpensive teleprompter software applications as well as free Web-based teleprompter applets, many different disc... | 6,129,304 |
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to deliver prewritten information by relative novices. They are usually called "personal teleprompters."
## Presidential (or glass) teleprompters.
In 1964, glass teleprompters appearing on either side of the lectern were used at both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Conventi... | 6,129,305 |
441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
a one-way mirror at the top, angled down towards the screen. The speaker sees the text on the screen reflected in the mirror, while the audience sees what looks like a sheet of tinted glass on each side of the speaker.
## Confidence monitors.
In 1996, speakers at the "Democratic National Convention", hel... | 6,129,306 |
441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
teleprompters on either side of the speaker, which create the illusion that the speaker is looking directly at the audience in the hall, are joined by a third, much larger teleprompter screen, known as a 'confidence monitor', which is placed immediately below the broadcast TV cameras which are located some... | 6,129,307 |
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Brighton Centre in Brighton, UK, also used a three-screen system (but this time consisting entirely of large off-stage confidence monitors mounted on poles — which are often described outside North America, together with glass teleprompters, as "autocues"), where the skill required for those using it, acco... | 6,129,308 |
441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
then-new leader, Nick Clegg (2008—2015) — to abandon the podium lectern and roam the stage, speaking with apparent spontaneity but in fact constantly assisted by three large autocue screens placed throughout the conference hall. Ironically, this use of the system was adopted by Clegg to counter the oratori... | 6,129,309 |
441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
restrictions on the speaker's movement and field of vision imposed by on-stage glass prompters. The disadvantage of such a system is that the provision of "giant teleprompters" becomes essential to maintaining the illusion of speaking with apparent spontaneity.
Teleprompters in India
Harish Bhimani a Nat... | 6,129,310 |
441391 | Teleprompter | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teleprompter | Teleprompter
was very keen to see how the broadcasting fraternity functioned in the most advanced country in the world.
The first thing that struck him was the level of professionalism in their approach.
In a nut-shell, if you are expected to give a top-notch performance, you also received the best facilities to make... | 6,129,311 |
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the teleprompter stayed with him and he managed to get the first privately owned teleprompter to India in 1992. As a performing broadcaster, he understood the requirements from the performers' perspective. With his pulse on the market, he selected components & made appropriate innovations, in order to as... | 6,129,312 |
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n or event run as smoothly as possible. After procuring equipment from a variety of sources, the components were selected for their unique capabilities with military grade flat-panel technology and a software that meets the demands of all production environments set-up by tech savvy teleprompter operators,... | 6,129,313 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood (June 1 or June 29, 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Hood had a reputation for bravery and aggressiveness that sometimes bordered on recklessness. Arguably one of the best brigade and division commanders in the CSA, Hood gradu... | 6,129,314 |
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Army in California and Texas. At the start of the Civil War, he offered his services to his adopted state of Texas. He achieved his reputation for aggressive leadership as a brigade commander in the army of Robert E. Lee during the Seven Days Battles in 1862, after which he was promoted to division comma... | 6,129,315 |
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right leg.
Hood returned to field service during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, and at the age of 33 was promoted to temporary full general and command of the Army of Tennessee at the outskirts of Atlanta, making him the youngest soldier on either side of the war to be given command of an army. There, he... | 6,129,316 |
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he was relieved of command.
After the war, Hood moved to Louisiana and worked as a cotton broker and in the insurance business. His business was ruined by a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans during the winter of 1878–79 and he succumbed to the disease himself, dying just days after his wife and oldes... | 6,129,317 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
father's reluctance to support a military career for his son. Hood graduated in 1853, ranked 44th in a class of 52 that originally numbered 96, after a near-expulsion in his final year for excessive demerits (196 of a permissible 200). At West Point and in later Army years, he was known to friends as "Sa... | 6,129,318 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
appointed chief instructor of cavalry at West Point, a position he declined, citing his desire to remain with his active field regiment and to retain all of his options in light of the impending war.
Hood was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry, served at Fort Jones, Califor... | 6,129,319 |
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He was later promoted to first lieutenant in August 1858.
# Civil War.
## Brigade and division command.
Hood resigned from the United States Army immediately after the Battle of Fort Sumter and, dissatisfied with the neutrality of his native Kentucky, decided to serve his adopted state of Texas. He jo... | 6,129,320 |
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Lee and Magruder. By September 30, the Texan was promoted to be colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment.
On February 20, 1862, Hood was assigned to command a new brigade of mainly Texas regiments that would soon become known as the Texas Brigade. The brigade had been initially formed the previous fal... | 6,129,321 |
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Texans quickly gained a reputation as one of the army's elite combat units. At the Battle of Eltham's Landing, his men were instrumental in nullifying an amphibious landing by a Union division. When commanding general Joseph E. Johnston reflected upon the success Hood's men enjoyed in executing his order... | 6,129,322 |
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himself by leading his brigade in a charge that broke the Union line, which was the most successful Confederate performance in the Seven Days Battles. Hood himself survived unscathed, but over 400 men and most of the officers in the Texas Brigade were killed or wounded. He broke down and wept at the sigh... | 6,129,323 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
numbered five brigades at Seven Pines, a couple of army reorganizations since then reduced it to just two—the Texas Brigade and a brigade of Mississippians commanded by Col. Evander M. Law. Also accompanying them during the Northern Virginia Campaign was the independent South Carolina brigade of Brig. Ge... | 6,129,324 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
involved in a dispute over captured ambulances with a superior officer, Brig. Gen. Nathan "Shanks" Evans. Evans arrested Hood, but Gen. Lee intervened and retained him in service. During the Maryland Campaign, just before the Battle of South Mountain, Hood was in the rear, still in virtual arrest. His Te... | 6,129,325 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
with the Union XII Corps. In the evening after the battle, Gen. Lee asked Hood where his division was. He responded, "They are lying on the field where you sent them. My division has been almost wiped out." Of his 2,000 men, almost 1,000 were casualties. Jackson was impressed with Hood's performance and ... | 6,129,326 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
detached duty in Suffolk, Virginia, involving Longstreet himself and Hood's and George Pickett's divisions. When he heard news of Stonewall Jackson's death after Chancellorsville, he expressed grief for the man he most deeply admired, personally and militarily.
## Gettysburg.
It was to Hood that Lee wr... | 6,129,327 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
assignment in the assault because it would face difficult terrain in the boulder-strewn area known as the Devil's Den. He requested permission from Longstreet to move around the left flank of the Union army, beyond the mountain known as [Big] Round Top, to strike the Union in their rear area. Longstreet ... | 6,129,328 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
of an artillery shell exploding overhead, severely damaging his left arm, which incapacitated him. (Although the arm was not amputated, he was unable to make use of it for the rest of his life.) His ranking brigade commander, Brig. Gen. Evander M. Law, assumed command of the division, but confusion as to... | 6,129,329 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
South Carolina socialite, Sally Buchanan Preston, known as "Buck" to her friends, whom he had first met while traveling through Richmond in March 1863. Hood later confessed that the flirtatious Southern belle had caused him to "surrender at first sight." As he prepared to return to duty in September, Hoo... | 6,129,330 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
he had with him on the field with Brig. Gen. Bushrod Johnson's division. It was then that Hood participated in the Battle of Chickamauga, driving Col. Robert Minty's Union brigade from Reed's Bridge and stopping only at Alexander's Bridge, where John T. Wilder's men fired their Spencer repeating rifles o... | 6,129,331 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
C. Davis's Union division. He then advanced to assist Brig. Gen Henry D. Clayton's outnumbered men near the Lafayette Road. Around this time, Longstreet had arrived; Hood was to be in temporarily command of the I Corps, which would serve as part of the Confederate left wing under Longstreet.
On the 20th... | 6,129,332 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
assuming that they would be buried together. Because of Hood's bravery at Chickamauga, Longstreet recommended that he be promoted to lieutenant general as of that date, September 20, 1863; the confirmation by the Confederate Senate occurred on February 11, 1864, as Hood was preparing to return to duty.
... | 6,129,333 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
hardest battle he had ever fought in his life." In February, Hood proposed again to Buck and this time demanded a specific response, which was a reluctant, embarrassed agreement. However, the Preston family did not approve of Hood, who left for the field unmarried.
## Atlanta Campaign and the Army of Te... | 6,129,334 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
stiffly, and an orderly following closely behind with crutches. The leg, made of cork, was donated (along with a couple of spares) by members of his Texas Brigade, who had collected $3,100 in a single day for that purpose; it had been imported from Europe through the Union blockade. On May 12, Hood was b... | 6,129,335 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
rather similar to his strategy in the Peninsula Campaign. One attempt by Johnston to act decisively in the offensive, during the Battle of Cassville, ironically was foiled by Hood, who had been ordered to attack the flank of one column of Sherman's army, but instead pulled back and entrenched when confro... | 6,129,336 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
Braxton Bragg was ordered by President Davis to travel to Atlanta to personally interview Johnston. After meeting with Johnston, he interviewed Hood and another subordinate, Joseph Wheeler, who told him that they had repeatedly urged Johnston to attack. Hood presented a letter that branded Johnston as be... | 6,129,337 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
over the line from unprofessional to outright subversive." Civil War historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote that Hood was "letting his ambition get the better of his honesty" because "the truth was that Hood, more often than Hardee, had counseled Johnston to retreat." However, Hood was not alone in his crit... | 6,129,338 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
Hood. Bragg had not only been impressed by his interview with Hood, but he retained lingering resentments against Hardee from bitter disagreements in previous campaigns. Hood was promoted to the temporary rank of full general on July 18, and given command of the army just outside the gates of Atlanta. (H... | 6,129,339 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
off," but he could not say whether Hood possessed all of the qualities necessary to command an army in the field. Lee also stated in the same letter to Jefferson Davis that he had a high opinion of Hood's gallantry, earnestness, and zeal.
The change of command in the Army of Tennessee did not go unnotic... | 6,129,340 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
launched four major attacks that summer in an attempt to break Sherman's siege of Atlanta, starting almost immediately with an attack along Peachtree Creek. After hearing that McPherson was mortally wounded in the Battle of Atlanta, Hood deeply regretted his loss. All of the offensives failed, particular... | 6,129,341 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
Sherman's lines of communications between Chattanooga and Atlanta, and to move north through Alabama and into central Tennessee, assuming that Sherman would be threatened and follow. Hood's ambitious hope was that he could maneuver Sherman into a decisive battle, defeat him, recruit additional forces in ... | 6,129,342 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
Hood with his army, he sent Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas to take control of the Union forces in Tennessee and coordinate the defense against Hood, while the bulk of Sherman's forces prepared to march toward Savannah.
During their conference, Davis expressed his disappointment in Hood's performance in defe... | 6,129,343 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
a new theater commander to supervise Hood and the department of Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor, although the officer selected for the assignment, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, was not expected to exert any real operational control of the armies in the field.
Hood's Tennessee Campaign lasted from September to Decembe... | 6,129,344 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
sent his men across nearly two miles of open ground without the support of artillery in a last gasp effort to destroy Schofield's forces before they could withdraw across the Harpeth River and reach the safety of Nashville, which was only a night's march from Franklin. His troops were unsuccessful in the... | 6,129,345 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
that the Federal army had slipped past his troops the night before at Spring Hill and that he wanted to discipline his army by ordering his men to assault against strong odds. Recent scholarship by Eric Jacobson and Stephen M. Hood discounts this as unlikely, as it was not only militarily foolish, but Ho... | 6,129,346 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
relentless pursuit to the south, the Army of Tennessee ceased to be an effective fighting force, as the campaign cost the army about 23,500 of its initial strength of 38,000. Hood and the remnants of the army retreated as far as Tupelo, Mississippi. Some of the survivors eventually joined Joseph E. Johns... | 6,129,347 |
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8.
## Final days of the war.
In March 1865, Hood requested assignment to the Trans-Mississippi Theater to report on the situation there and to assess the possibility of moving troops across the Mississippi River to reinforce the East. He met with Richard Taylor in Mississippi in late April and agreed w... | 6,129,348 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
and worked as president of the Life Association of America, an insurance business. In 1868, he married New Orleans native Anna Marie Hennen, with whom he had 11 children over 10 years, including three pairs of twins. He also served the community in numerous philanthropic endeavors, assisting in fund-rais... | 6,129,349 |
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and to unfavorable portrayals in William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs.
His insurance business collapsed during a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans during the winter of 1878–79. Soon after, in a single week, the epidemic killed Hood himself, Hood's wife, and his eldest daughter Lydia. His other ten chil... | 6,129,350 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
and the U.S. Army installation, Fort Hood in central Texas.
There was a John B. Hood Junior High School at 7625 Hume Dr in Dallas, TX, but it was renamed in 2016.
There was a John B. Hood Junior High School at 601 E. 38th St. in Odessa, Texas, but it was renamed in 2015.
Hood County in Texas was named... | 6,129,351 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
of having to serve under him. While previously critical of Hood after Nashville, he later changed his opinion. In one of the "Other Sketches" of his aforementioned memoir, he offers the following appraisal of Hood:
In Bell I. Wiley's 1943 book, "The Life of Johnny Reb, the Common Soldier of the Confeder... | 6,129,352 |
441372 | John Bell Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John%20Bell%20Hood | John Bell Hood
that Hood's decision to leave the defenses of Atlanta and make a disastrous attack upon the Union forces had cost the South its last chance to win the war.
The 2009 novel "A Separate Country", by Robert Hicks, focuses on Hood's life after the Civil War.
# See also.
- List of American Civil War general... | 6,129,353 |
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brigadier to the fal of Atlanta: John Bell Hood." Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.
- Dyer, John P. "The Gallant Hood". New York: Smithmark, 1995. . First published 1950 by Bobbs-Merrill.
- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, "Civil War High Commands." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
... | 6,129,354 |
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Resurrection of a Confederate General". El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. .
- Hood, Stephen M. "The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood". El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2015. .
- Jacobson, Eric A., and Richard A. Rupp. "For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring H... | 6,129,355 |
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Press, 1987. .
- Sears, Stephen W. "To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign". Ticknor and Fields, 1992. .
- Sword, Wiley. "The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville". Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. . First published with the title "Embrace an Angry Wind" ... | 6,129,356 |
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Printing Company, 1900.
- Watkins, Sam, "Co. Aytch or, A Side Show of the Big Show and Other Sketches". Plume, 1999. .
- Woodworth, Steven E. "Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West". Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. .
- Hood's biography in "About N... | 6,129,357 |
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rth Georgia"
- Hood's biography in "Handbook of Texas Online"
- JohnBellHood.org website
# Further reading.
- McMurry, Richard M. "John Bell Hood." In "The Confederate General", vol. 3, edited by William C. Davis and Julie Hoffman. Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1991. .
- "The War of t... | 6,129,358 |
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Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
The Senate of the Republic, () constitutionally Chamber of Senators of the Honorable Congress of the Union (), is the upper house of Mexico's bicameral Congress. It currently consists of 128 members, who serve six-year terms.
# Composition.
After a seri... | 6,129,359 |
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in proportion to their share of the national vote.
In a senatorial race, each party nominates two candidates who run and are elected "together" by direct vote. The party of the two candidates that won the second highest vote within the state or the Federal District then assigns a senato... | 6,129,360 |
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from immediate reelection, but Senators can now serve a second term.
# Term.
In Spanish, it is conventional to refer to each Legislature of the Senate by the Roman numeral of its term. The current session (whose term lasts from 2018 to 2021) is known as the LXIV Legislatura ("64th Legi... | 6,129,361 |
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six years later), divided into two legislatures of three years each.
From 1 September 2015 is installed LXIII Legislature, which will end its term on 31 August 2018. Senators were elected to office in the 2012 elections for a period of six years and are at their posts from 1 September o... | 6,129,362 |
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years old on election day
- Being from the state in the election, or neighbor of him with an effective residence of more than six months prior to the date of the election, or in the case of candidates is made by proportional representation of any of the states that as the constituency, ... | 6,129,363 |
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a minister of some religious cult.
## Election process.
Senators are elected for a period of six years, corresponding to two legislatures and cannot be reelected for the immediate period, although alternately.
They are elected by direct popular suffrage and secret ballot in every stat... | 6,129,364 |
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Formula of the political party that won second place of votes or first minority.
There are also 32 senators elected by proportional representation. For this election, each political party registers a list of 32 candidates, and these are allocated by proportional representation according... | 6,129,365 |
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Board: Considered the true governing body of the Chamber consists of a chairman and six members, which always include the Coordinators of the different parliamentary factions of political parties represented in the Senate.
# Commissions.
For the office of legislative affairs, senators ... | 6,129,366 |
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Congress divided its exercise into two ordinary sessions, the first from September 1 to December 15 and the second from February 1 to April 30, it should be required may convene special sessions to dispatch urgent or pertinent matters.
The time between the regular sessions known as Rece... | 6,129,367 |
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ure; It is composed of 37 members, of which 19 deputies and 18 senators are appointed by their respective chambers the day before the closing of the regular sessions.
The sessions of the Standing Committee are held in the Senate during the first recess and the House of Representatives i... | 6,129,368 |
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Legend tripping
Legend tripping is a name bestowed by folklorists and anthropologists on an adolescent practice (containing elements of a rite of passage) in which a usually furtive nocturnal pilgrimage is made to a site which is alleged to have been the scene of some tragic, horrific, and possibly sup... | 6,129,369 |
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caves, rural roads, specific woods or other uninhabited (or semi-uninhabited) areas, and especially cemeteries are frequent sites of legend-tripping pilgrimages.
# Reactions and controversies.
Legend-tripping is a mostly harmless, perhaps even beneficial, youth recreation. It allows young people to de... | 6,129,370 |
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community, and sometimes even the mass media. These panics often further embellish the prestige of the legend trip to the adolescent mind. In at least one notorious case, years of destructive legend-tripping, amounting to an "ostensive frenzy," led to the fatal shooting of a legend-tripper near Lincoln,... | 6,129,371 |
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at Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City, Iowa.
- The grave of Captain Frances McHarry in Harrison County, Indiana
- Goat Man's Grave near Rolla, Missouri.
- The Lake View Public School, also known as the Gore Orphanage, near Cleveland, Ohio
- Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois and its Fire ... | 6,129,372 |
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Kentucky
- Old Louisville, reported to be the most haunted neighborhood in the United States
- Sweet Hollow Road and Mount Misery Road in Huntington, New York
- The New Jersey Pine Barrens, said to be home to the Jersey Devil
- Mudhouse Mansion in Fairfield County, Ohio
- The Baird Chair monument i... | 6,129,373 |
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Bloody Mary (folklore)
- Ghost hunting
- Haunted house
- La Llorona
- Siguanaba (Salvadoran Folklore)
- "Stand by Me" (film)
- The Devil's Chair (urban legend)
- "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
- Urban legend
# References.
- "Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live", by Bill Ellis (2001)
- "Legen... | 6,129,374 |
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The Journal of American Folklore 120 (477):335-354.
- "What is Legend Tripping?": Robinson, Robert C. "Legend Tripping: The Ultimate Family Experience 2014. IBN 978-1-889137-60-
# Further reading.
- Bill Ellis. "Aliens Ghosts and Cults, Legends we Live." 2001.
- Bill Ellis. "Raising the Devil, Satan... | 6,129,375 |
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1.
- Bill Ellis. "Raising the Devil, Satanism, New Religions and the Media." 2000.
- Michael Kinsella. "Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat." (2011)
- Kobrowski, Nicole "Encyclopedia of Haunted Indiana" 2008.
- Robinson, Robert C. "Legend Tripping: The Ultimate... | 6,129,376 |
441474 | Second Cup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second%20Cup | Second Cup
Second Cup
Second Cup Coffee Co., also known as "Les cafés Second Cup'′ is a Canadian coffee roaster and retailer which operates more than 300 cafes nationwide. Its headquarters are in Mississauga, Ontario. Its stores sell hot and cold beverages, pastries, snacks, pre-packaged food items, hot and cold sandw... | 6,129,377 |
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Romania, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Philippines, Bangladesh and Poland.
Tassimo Second Cup beverages were launched in September 2012. Tassimo T65 are now sold at every Second Cup location.
# History.
Second Cup was founded in 1975 by Tom Culligan and Frank O'Dea in Toronto, Canada. Culligan eventually purc... | 6,129,378 |
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died on March 11, 2009. The trademark rights were subsequently split between Canada (The Second Cup Ltd.) and international (The Second Cup Coffee Company Inc.). Stacey Mowbray was head of the Canadian company and Jim Ragas leads the international company. Stacey Mowbrey, Second Cup CEO from 2008-2014, claim... | 6,129,379 |
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perspective of her frontline employees, and promote Second Cup's image as a company that cares and provides the best café experience. In April 2015, Second Cup launched Rewards program, which allow its users to earn points using a mobile app.
Alix Box was the CEO and president at The Second Cup Ltd. from 20... | 6,129,380 |
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there will be no cannabis related products sold at any Second Cup Cafes. This strategic alliance is an opportunity for Second Cup to leverage its valuable real estate assets to drive value for the franchisees, and does not change plans to grow the Second
Cup brand and sales through new product innovation, a... | 6,129,381 |
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starting 1 April 2019.) The plan was conditional on Second Cup receiving the necessary licence from the province and approval from franchisees and landlords.
# Second Cup coffee.
## Coffee bean production.
During the harvesting process, Second Cup accepts two methods of coffee cherry processing to separat... | 6,129,382 |
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The resulting coffee is consistent and more acidic.
In the coffee roasting process, Second Cup uses batch roasting, small batches of 100–200 kg of seeds being placed in individual roasters. This method ensures greater quality control compared to other methods such as continuous roasting.
## Coffee bean reg... | 6,129,383 |
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from the volcanic mountain of Panama. Colombia has 12% of the world's coffee supply and is where Second Cup gets its San Agustin blend from. Second Cup's Fazenda Vista Alegre blend is from Brazil.
# Rainforest Alliance.
The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organization that works to conse... | 6,129,384 |
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Stacey Mowbrey's goal is to obtain environmental and fair trade certifications for every blend on Second Cup's menu. The following certifications will allow this goal to be reached.
As of fall 2011, Second Cup offers 10 Whole Leaf Tea Blends and Herbal Tisanes that are Fair Trade Certified. These include: E... | 6,129,385 |
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prison for terrorist activities including murder, was convicted of firebombing three Second Cup locations in Montreal. The responsibility for the bombings was claimed by the "Brigade d'autodéfense du français" (BAF) (translated as Self Defence Brigade of French). BAF claimed it had targeted the stores becaus... | 6,129,386 |
441493 | IIM | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IIM | IIM
IIM
IIM may refer to:
- Indian Institutes of Management, a group of 20 schools of management in India
- Alternative name for Mexican pop group Flans for 2002 revival, from initials of names Ivonne, Ilse and Mimí
- IPTC Information Interchange Model, a standard for embedding metadata in images
- IC Identificati... | 6,129,387 |
441496 | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint%20Thomas,%20U.S.%20Virgin%20Islands | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint Thomas () is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and, together with Saint John, Water Island, Hassel Island, and Saint Croix, a former Danish colony, form a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), a... | 6,129,388 |
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Arawaks and then the Caribs. Christopher Columbus sighted the island in 1493 on his second voyage to the New World.
## Danish and German colonial period.
The Dutch West India Company established a post on Saint Thomas in 1657. The first congregation was the St. Thomas Reformed Church... | 6,129,389 |
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was granted free port status in 1764.
The land was divided into plantations and sugarcane production became the primary economic activity. As a result, the economies of Saint Thomas and the neighboring islands of Saint John and Saint Croix became highly dependent on slave labor and th... | 6,129,390 |
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settlement there was renamed Charlotte Amalie in honor of the wife of Denmark's King Christian V. It was later declared a free port by Frederick V. In December 1732, the first two of many Moravian Brethren missionaries came from Herrnhut Saxony in present-day Germany to minister to the... | 6,129,391 |
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The islands were returned to Denmark in 1802, under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens. Fire destroyed hundreds of homes in Charlotte Amalie in 1804.
The second British occupation of the island occurred from 1807-1815, after the Invasion of the Danish West Indies (1807), during which t... | 6,129,392 |
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sugar producers.
Given its harbors and fortifications, Saint Thomas still retained a strategic importance, and thus, in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and its aftermath, the United States government considered buying the island and its neighbors from Denmark for $7.5 million... | 6,129,393 |
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of the press in the islands. He began the first newspaper in the islands, known as "The Herald". After this, he organized labor unions among the islanders for better working conditions. The islands now have an annual celebration in November to honor the legacy of David Hamilton Jackson... | 6,129,394 |
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U.S Virgin Islands. The baccalaureate service for the transfer was held at the St. Thomas Reformed Church as it was identified as the American church in the Danish West Indies.
The United States granted citizenship to the residents in 1927. The U.S. Department of the Interior took ove... | 6,129,395 |
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of tourism on the island. With relatively cheap air travel and the American embargo on Cuba, the numbers of visitors greatly increased. Despite natural disasters such as Hurricane Hugo (1989) and Hurricanes Luis and Marilyn (1995), the island's infrastructure continues to improve as th... | 6,129,396 |
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Thomas is divided into the following subdistricts (with population as per the 2010 U.S. Census):
- 1. Charlotte Amalie (pop. 18,481) Charlotte Amalie town (pop. 10,354)
- 2. East End (pop. 8,403)
- 3. Northside (pop. 10,049)
- 4. Southside (pop. 5,411)
- 5. Tutu (pop. 6,867)
- 6.... | 6,129,397 |
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under United States jurisdiction where the rule of the road is to drive on the left. This was inherited from what was the then-current Danish practice at the time of the American acquisition in 1917. However, because Saint Thomas is a U.S. territory, most cars are imported from the mai... | 6,129,398 |
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John School District operates public schools on Saint Thomas.
Private schools:
- Antilles School (www.antilles.vi)
- Virgin Islands Montessori School & International Academy
- Calvary Christian Academy
Parochial schools:
- All Saints Cathedral School
- Saints Peter & Paul Cathol... | 6,129,399 |
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