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536435 | Sea swallow | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sea%20swallow | Sea swallow
Sea swallow
Sea swallow may refer to:
- the common tern, "Sterna hirundo", a seabird in the family Laridae
- "Glaucus atlanticus", a pelagic aeolid nudibranch | 6,130,000 |
536436 | Perkins County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perkins%20County | Perkins County
Perkins County
Perkins County is the name of two counties in the United States:
- Perkins County, Nebraska
- Perkins County, South Dakota | 6,130,001 |
536443 | Pennington County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pennington%20County | Pennington County
Pennington County
Pennington County is the name of two counties in the United States:
- Pennington County, Minnesota
- Pennington County, South Dakota | 6,130,002 |
536445 | Pendleton County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pendleton%20County | Pendleton County
Pendleton County
Pendleton County is the name of two counties in the United States:
- Pendleton County, Kentucky
- Pendleton County, West Virginia | 6,130,003 |
536446 | Treaty of Ulm | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty%20of%20Ulm | Treaty of Ulm
Treaty of Ulm
Treaty of Ulm can refer to one of several treaties signed in Ulm, Germany:
- Treaty of Ulm (1326), establishing the joint rule of Frederick the Fair and Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor in the Holy Roman Empire
- Treaty of Ulm (1620), under which the Protestant Union established its neutralit... | 6,130,004 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
1997 Red River flood
The Red River flood of 1997 was a major flood that occurred in April and May 1997 along the Red River of the North in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Southern Manitoba. It was the most severe flood of the river since 1826. The flood reached throughout the Red River Valley, affect... | 6,130,005 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
River Floodway, an artificial waterway completed in 1968 and known as "Duff's Ditch", diverted some floodwaters around Winnipeg, saving it from flooding. As a result of the 1997 flood and its extensive property losses, the United States and state governments made additional improvements to the floo... | 6,130,006 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
from Grand Forks Air Force Base, tried to prepare for the 1997 flood by building sandbag dikes. These dikes were constructed based on a 49-foot estimate of flooding set by the National Weather Service. The river crested at 54 feet in Grand Forks. Grand Forks mayor Pat Owens had to order the evacuat... | 6,130,007 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
the difference in estimates and actual flood levels.
In the aftermath, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) worked with the cities of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks to clear residential and business development from a large area of floodplain, because of the certainty of future regiona... | 6,130,008 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
through the centuries. It is highly prone to spring flooding because of its northward flow, the nearly flat former lake bed of the valley, and ice formation on the river. As spring approaches, the snow melts from south to north in the same direction as the riverflow. At times high waters encounter ... | 6,130,009 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
had to be evacuated. An estimated $606 million CAD (1997) of damage resulted. In the aftermath, the government of Manitoba and the Canadian federal government constructed flood safety measures.
The first known records of floods along the Red River were documented in the 1770s. Severe floods have o... | 6,130,010 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
and its counterpart East Grand Forks, Minnesota, were the pair most severely affected by the 1997 flood. Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota (Fargo-Moorhead) and Wahpeton, North Dakota/Breckenridge, Minnesota also had severe flooding. Much of the flooding accumulated not only because of the ris... | 6,130,011 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
1979 flood. The cities had built dikes to this level, but the river continued to rise past it. Taken by surprise, the NWS did not upgrade its forecast until April 16, the day the river reached 49 feet.
The dikes in the low-lying Lincoln Drive neighborhood of Grand Forks were the first to break, do... | 6,130,012 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
during the Civil War.
Water reached areas more than two miles (3 km) inland from the Red River, requiring evacuation of all of East Grand Forks and 75% of Grand Forks. School was cancelled in both cities for the remainder of the term, as were classes at the University of North Dakota. All transpor... | 6,130,013 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
residents also evacuated to motels and homes in outlying communities.
The river crested at 54.35 feet (16.6 m) on April 21, and the river level did not fall below 49 feet (14.9 m) until April 26. Because water drained so slowly out of the most low-lying areas, some homeowners could not visit their... | 6,130,014 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
Portage Diversion and the Shellmouth Dam on the Assiniboine River. Even with these flood protection measures, in 1997 the province had a flood cresting at . It caused 28,000 people to be evacuated and $500 million CAD in damage to property and infrastructure.
The 1997 flood was a 100-year flood. I... | 6,130,015 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
datum", but causing additional flooding upriver. The mayor of Winnipeg, announcing that the design limit had been reached, misinterpreted this as good news that the flooding had peaked. City sand-bagging stopped, and national reporters left the city, but the water continued to rise inside and outsi... | 6,130,016 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the provincial Department of Natural Resources. Many people chose to evacuate, including residents from Morris, who had only two days notice to evacuate to Winnipeg. Thousands of volunteers helped to build sandbag dikes around homes and property. An emergency long... | 6,130,017 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
the town from the west. At the flood's peak in Canada on May 4, the Red River occupied an area of 1,840 km (710 mi) with more than 2,560 km (990 mi) of land underwater, which earned it the nickname "Red Sea."
While the flooding was still underway, the federal Liberal government led by Jean Chrétie... | 6,130,018 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
Minister Jean Chrétien and United States President Bill Clinton appointed the International Red River Basin Task Force, comprising members from both countries. The task force's purpose was to find ways to improve flood forecasting.
The province of Manitoba asked the International Joint Commission ... | 6,130,019 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
materials on the berms. At first, this graffiti was placed on trashed appliances to prevent theft and resale, but soon expanded in medium and purpose. The graffiti done mostly in spray paint (also mud) started to not only be a precaution, but a dialogue of emotions related to the effects of the flo... | 6,130,020 |
536397 | 1997 Red River flood | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1997%20Red%20River%20flood | 1997 Red River flood
National Weather Service after it predicted a flood crest about five feet less than the actual. As this developed, catastroffiti was appearing on not just household appliances, but also houses, garages, and signs. In the aftermath of the 1997 Red River Flood, catastroffiti became a method of commen... | 6,130,021 |
536461 | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCAA%20Division%20II%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament (officially styled by the NCAA as a "Championship" instead of a "Tournament") is an annual championship tournament for colleges and universities that are members of NCAA Division I... | 6,130,022 |
536461 | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCAA%20Division%20II%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
in 1974, when the NCAA split the College Division into the limited-scholarship Division II and the non-scholarship Division III, and added the "Men's" designation in 1982 when the NCAA began sponsoring a Division II women's championship.
Like all other NCAA basketball divis... | 6,130,023 |
536461 | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCAA%20Division%20II%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
site.
# Qualification.
As of 2017, a total of 64 bids are available for each tournament: 24 automatic bids (awarded to the champions of the twenty-four Division II conferences) and 40 at-large bids.
The sixty-four bids are allocated evenly among the eight NCAA-designated ... | 6,130,024 |
536461 | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCAA%20Division%20II%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference will disband after the 2018–19 season, with seven of its nine members moving to the Lone Star Conference and the other two joining the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
# Results.
- Source:
# Records and statistics.
## Former Division II champ... | 6,130,025 |
536461 | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=NCAA%20Division%20II%20Men's%20Basketball%20Tournament | NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
seven of its nine members moving to the Lone Star Conference and the other two joining the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
# Results.
- Source:
# Records and statistics.
## Former Division II champions now in Division I.
"Source:"
## Former Division ... | 6,130,026 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
Hannover Airport
Hannover Airport is the international airport of Hannover, capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. The ninth largest airport in Germany, it is in Langenhagen, north of Hannover. The airport has flights to European metropolitan and leisure destinations, and serves as a base for Eu... | 6,130,027 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
A and B are still in service today.
In the 1990s trials of intercontinental services to the United States and Canada were stopped due to low passenger numbers.
In 1998 the largest terminal, C, was opened to handle more passengers, adding 8 more boarding gates and 3 bus departure gates. Up to 33 aircr... | 6,130,028 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
two years later, the air show moved to Berlin in 1992.
## Development since the 2000s.
In 2000 an S-Bahn connection was established between the airport and Hamelin via Hannover Central Station. This replaced the airport's shuttle bus service which ran every 20 minutes, more frequently than the S-Bahn... | 6,130,029 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
reduced the flight program and operated its last flight from Hannover in March 2017.
Hannover Airport has struggled to generate increased demand in recent years, possibly due to a reluctance or inability to attract Europe's low-cost carriers to serve the airport. Although traffic grew satisfactorily d... | 6,130,030 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
Iran are currently under investigation.
The General Aviation Terminal, located near the center runway, was renamed "Karl Jatho Terminal" in honour of Hanoverian aviation pioneer Karl Jatho.
# Terminal.
Hannover Airport has three passenger terminal concourses named "Terminals A, B", and "C". The land... | 6,130,031 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
on 9 July 2014.
The additional Terminal D to the east of the main terminal is a rebuilt hangar which is exclusively used by the Royal Air Force to transport British troops to and from Northern Germany.
# Airlines and destinations.
## Passenger.
The following airlines offer regular scheduled and cha... | 6,130,032 |
536448 | Hannover Airport | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hannover%20Airport | Hannover Airport
located beneath Terminal C and features frequent services of Hanover S-Bahn line "S5" to Hannover city centre. The journey time is approx. 17 minutes and the service runs every 30 minutes 22 hours a day. During important fairs like the Hanover Fair additional hourly services of Hanover S-Bahn line "S8"... | 6,130,033 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
Silas Talbot
Silas Talbot (January 11, 1751 – June 30, 1813) was an officer in the Continental Army and in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution. Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS "Constitution" from 1799 to 1801.
# Early life.
Talbot was born in Dighton, Massachusetts and came ... | 6,130,034 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
Revolution.
On June 28, 1775 Talbot received the commission of a captain in the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment. After participating in the siege of Boston, Talbot and the Continental Army began their march to New York. En route, they stopped at New London, Connecticut whose port had just received Esek Hopkins ... | 6,130,035 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
to use it to set fire to the British warship HMS "Asia" on September 14, 1776. The attempt failed, but the daring it displayed, and that Talbot was severely burned during the effort, won him a promotion to major on October 10, 1777 retroactive to September 1.
After suffering a severe wound at Fort Mifflin... | 6,130,036 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
trade between Long Island and Nantucket and made prisoners of many of them. On November 14, 1778 the Continental Congress passed a resolution which recognized his success in capturing the "Pigot" and promoted him to lieutenant colonel on the same date. In October of the same year, the Rhode Island General ... | 6,130,037 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
put to sea in command of the privateer "General Washington". In it, he took one prize, but soon thereafter ran into the British fleet off New York. After a chase, he struck his colors to "Culloden", a 74-gun ship-of-the-line and remained a prisoner until exchanged for a British officer in December 1781.
#... | 6,130,038 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
Congress, and served from March 4, 1793, to approximately June 5, 1794, when President George Washington chose him third in a list of six captains of the newly established United States Navy. He was ordered to superintend the construction of the frigate USS "President" at New York. On April 20, 1796, const... | 6,130,039 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
during the Quasi-War. He commanded the Santo Domingo Station in 1799 and 1800 and was commended by the Secretary of the Navy for protecting American commerce and for laying the foundation of a permanent trade with that country. It is said that Talbot was wounded 13 times and carried 5 bullets in his body.
... | 6,130,040 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
named for Captain Silas Talbot.
Talbot was an original member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
Battery Talbot (1899-1919), named for Silas Talbot in G.O. 30, 19 Mar 1902, was a reinforced concrete, Endicott Period 4.72 inch coastal gun battery on Fort Adams, Newport County, Rhode Island. Bo... | 6,130,041 |
536402 | Silas Talbot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silas%20Talbot | Silas Talbot
orced concrete, Endicott Period 4.72 inch coastal gun battery on Fort Adams, Newport County, Rhode Island. Both of the original guns from this battery survive. One is on display at Equality Park in Newport and the other is at Fort Moultrie National Park near Charleston, South Carolina.
There is a cenotaph... | 6,130,042 |
536492 | Pawnee County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pawnee%20County | Pawnee County
Pawnee County
Pawnee County is the name of several counties in the United States:
- Pawnee County, Kansas
- Pawnee County, Nebraska
- Pawnee County, Oklahoma | 6,130,043 |
536491 | The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Adventure%20of%20the%20Wax%20Gamblers | The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers
The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers
The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes", a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr.
# Plot.
While waiti... | 6,130,044 |
536491 | The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Adventure%20of%20the%20Wax%20Gamblers | The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers
aying cards in the hand of a wax figure in a Chamber of Horrors exhibit have changed. Holmes becomes immediately interested in this mystery and sends Watson to the exhibit to remove the cards in an orderly fashion and to bring them back to him in some envelopes. Holmes then demonstrate... | 6,130,045 |
536484 | Choroid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choroid | Choroid
Choroid
The choroid, also known as the choroidea or choroid coat, is the vascular layer of the eye, containing connective tissues, and lying between the retina and the sclera. The human choroid is thickest at the far extreme rear of the eye (at 0.2 mm), while in the outlying areas it narrows to 0.1 mm. The cho... | 6,130,046 |
536484 | Choroid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choroid | Choroid
layer - layer of medium diameter blood vessels;
- Choriocapillaris - layer of capillaries; and
- Bruch's membrane (synonyms: Lamina basalis, Complexus basalis, Lamina vitra) - innermost layer of the choroid.
# Blood supply.
There are two circulations of the eye: the retinal (in the retina) and uveal, suppli... | 6,130,047 |
536484 | Choroid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choroid | Choroid
from the central retinal artery, also a branch of the ophthalmic artery, but passing in conjunction with the optic nerve. They are branching in a segmental distribution to the end arterioles and not anastomoses. This is clinically significant for diseases affecting choroidal blood supply. The macula responsible... | 6,130,048 |
536484 | Choroid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choroid | Choroid
within the eye that would potentially result in the perception of confusing images.
In humans and most other primates, melanin occurs throughout the choroid. In albino humans, frequently melanin is absent and vision is low. In many animals, however, the partial absence of melanin contributes to superior night ... | 6,130,049 |
536484 | Choroid | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Choroid | Choroid
mans and most other primates, melanin occurs throughout the choroid. In albino humans, frequently melanin is absent and vision is low. In many animals, however, the partial absence of melanin contributes to superior night vision. In these animals, melanin is absent from a section of the choroid and within that ... | 6,130,050 |
536495 | Whirlpool Aero Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whirlpool%20Aero%20Car | Whirlpool Aero Car
Whirlpool Aero Car
The Whirlpool Aero Car or Spanish Aero Car is a cable car located in Niagara Falls, Ontario that transports passengers over a section of the Niagara River referred to as the Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgrade... | 6,130,051 |
536495 | Whirlpool Aero Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whirlpool%20Aero%20Car | Whirlpool Aero Car
to pull the carrier back to the loading/unloading terminal. It also has a rescue car which holds four passengers and one operator. The rescue car has so far only been used for training purposes.
The Aero Car is suspended between two Canadian points, though it crosses the Canadian and American border... | 6,130,052 |
536495 | Whirlpool Aero Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whirlpool%20Aero%20Car | Whirlpool Aero Car
river is about 2,800 cubic meters per second (623,000 imperial gallons per second) in the summer months, and 1,400 m³/s (300,000 imp gal/s) in the winter months. From the Aero Car, sightseers can see Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls, New York, as well as the Robert Moses Niagara Hydroelectric Po... | 6,130,053 |
536495 | Whirlpool Aero Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whirlpool%20Aero%20Car | Whirlpool Aero Car
not used in regular service.
The car operates from 10am to 5pm from the second week of March to the first week of November. It is closed during most of the winter because of ice and snow.
# See also.
- Incline railways at Niagara Falls
- Niagara Parks Commission People Mover
- Niagara Whirlpool
... | 6,130,054 |
536495 | Whirlpool Aero Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whirlpool%20Aero%20Car | Whirlpool Aero Car
in regular service.
The car operates from 10am to 5pm from the second week of March to the first week of November. It is closed during most of the winter because of ice and snow.
# See also.
- Incline railways at Niagara Falls
- Niagara Parks Commission People Mover
- Niagara Whirlpool
# Refere... | 6,130,055 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
David E. Kendall
David Evan Kendall (born May 2, 1944) is an American attorney, a graduate of Yale Law School and Oxford University, who clerked with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, worked as associate counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and has been a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP of Was... | 6,130,056 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
Post." In addition, he is known for having advised President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, and representing him during his impeachment trial. He served as defense attorney in the successful defense of retired General David Petraeus, and currently represents the former Secretary of State, Hi... | 6,130,057 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
arrest on multiple occasions. While in Mississippi, he was the roommate of murdered civil rights worker Andrew Goodman during the last week of Goodman's life.
Kendall obtained his B.A. in history from Wabash College in 1966 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). As a Rhodes Scholar, Kendall earned an M.A.... | 6,130,058 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
and handling high-profile death penalty cases including "Coker v. Georgia" and the death penalty appeals of John Arthur Spenkelink.
## Professional practice.
He joined Williams & Connolly LLP, a Washington, D.C. law firm, in 1978 and became a partner there in 1981. He currently works on diverse matte... | 6,130,059 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
criminal cases before the Supreme Court on "pro bono" assignments.
### Representation of corporate clients.
His notable clients have included the "Washington Post" and the "National Enquirer" (in First Amendment cases), Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos (in a naming rights case), the Motion Pictu... | 6,130,060 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
of President Clinton.
Kendall began representing President Clinton in November 1993 in an investigation related to the Arkansas savings and loan, Whitewater Development Company, Inc. As the investigation expanded, Kendall went on to represent Clinton during the 1998–99 impeachment proceedings, and con... | 6,130,061 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
with the intern did not constitute a sexual relationship, "for not having Clinton come forward earlier with the truth about Lewinsky, for letting him testify before the grand jury [and digging] himself into even deeper… trouble with his… answers, and for inflaming [Independent Counsel Kenneth] Starr wi... | 6,130,062 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
David Petraeus.
Kendall served as counsel to retired General David Petraeus, over his mishandling and dissemination of classified materials (to his biographer, Paula Broadwell), where Kendall saw felony charges reduced and possible prison time avoided in Petraeus's misdemeanor guilty plea and sentence... | 6,130,063 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
including in bar counsel investigations and civil litigation.
Kendall currently represents the former Secretary in the matter of her use of a private e-mail server while serving as United States Secretary of State, as well as in various civil matters.
# Published works.
- "ABA Standards for Criminal... | 6,130,064 |
536463 | David E. Kendall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David%20E.%20Kendall | David E. Kendall
private e-mail server while serving as United States Secretary of State, as well as in various civil matters.
# Published works.
- "ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Fair Trial and Free Press" (1991), as a part of the ABA Task Force
# Honors.
Kendall was recognized with a Doctor of Laws, "honoris... | 6,130,065 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Jim Verraros
James Conrad Verraros (born February 8, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor, who placed ninth on the first season of "American Idol." Raised by deaf parents, he is fluent in American Sign Language and gained notoriety on "American Idol" for signing the lyrics to his audition so... | 6,130,066 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Idol" finalist to come out, and he remained the series' only publicly gay finalist for over three years. Several organizations subsequently honored Verraros as an influential figure within the gay community (such as "Out" magazine, which named him to its "Most Intriguing People" list twice, first in 2002 a... | 6,130,067 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
and Understood", which Verraros had self-released through mp3.com around 2003. The lead single from "Rollercoaster", "You Turn It On", peaked at number twenty-one on the "Billboard" Dance Club Play Chart.
In addition to music, Verraros pursued an acting career. He had a starring role in the first two inst... | 6,130,068 |
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seventh season for AfterElton.com.
In 2007, Verraros released a non-album single about his to-be husband, Bill Brennan; the song, "You Make It Better", was featured in the second "Eating Out" film. Verraros and Brennan married in 2009. The same year as his wedding, Verraros self-released three new singles... | 6,130,069 |
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in Mount Prospect, Illinois. He grew up in nearby Crystal Lake. His father, Nicholas, and mother, Debbie, both lost their hearing, after contracting German measles as infants. Verraros was raised to be fluent in American Sign Language. The responsibility of interpreting for his parents as a child led him t... | 6,130,070 |
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thirteen, Verraros realized that he is gay. Although he did not come out publicly until after adolescence, his sexual orientation was apparent to his classmates, who bullied him during middle school. In response, Verraros developed a more masculine appearance. In a 2003 interview, he said of the time, "I c... | 6,130,071 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
opportunities. Insecure about the weight that he had put on, he began doing intensive workouts and became a vegetarian. Over the course of two and a half months, he lost around eighty pounds. Some people thought that he had developed an eating disorder, and Verraros later acknowledged that he most likely d... | 6,130,072 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
College, Verraros followed a friend's suggestion to try out for "American Idol" and attended the auditions in Chicago - even though his primary interest was acting. Verraros later said that he had only tried out "for fun" and without any expectations. In 2006, he reminisced, "I wasn't really looking for a ... | 6,130,073 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
focused on his parents' disabilities, and several publications speculated that Verraros may have been helped in the competition by sympathy votes.
Despite receiving positive remarks from the judges at his audition, Verraros began receiving largely negative feedback by the Top 30 semi-finals. Placed into G... | 6,130,074 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Weekly" called this the harshest critique that Cowell had given to any contestant on the series up to that point. Season one co-host Brian Dunkleman recalled in a 2014 podcast overhearing the judges say that they were going to "nail Jim" on the night of the semi-finals. After the performance, Dunkleman off... | 6,130,075 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
during the semi-finals may have increased audience support for Verraros, who was voted through to the top ten. Originally, Verraros was going to be cut anyway. In his 2011 tell-all book, "American Idol: The Untold Story", Richard Rushfield revealed that a "judge's cut" was going to be introduced as a twist... | 6,130,076 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
the decision, arguing that the audience's preference should be respected.
His place in the top ten secure, Verraros planned to sing "Get Ready" by The Temptations for the first round of finals. The week's theme was Motown. Verraros won a coin toss against Kelly Clarkson, who also wanted to sing "Get Ready... | 6,130,077 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
response.
When Verraros advanced into the top ten for "American Idol"'s first season, Shaw (of "Entertainment Weekly") wrote of the contestant, "I can't decide whether I love him or loathe him." She likened Verraros to a forgettable boy-band member, but also wrote that she had appreciated Verraros' decisi... | 6,130,078 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
watching all of the top ten finalists perform on their nationwide tour, he suggested that Verraros should have placed seventh and commended him for "doing as well as anyone could" with poor singing-material (referring to "Easy"). Another positive review of Verraros came from Rick Shefchik of the "Saint Pau... | 6,130,079 |
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Campbell of "The Herald News" was critical of Verraros' track on the album, writing "Verraros takes it too easy on his slack interpretation of Lionel Richie's Easy."
# Post-"Idol" life and career.
### "American Idol" tour and related projects.
About a month after being voted out of the top ten on "Amer... | 6,130,080 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
and November in the 2002 American Idols LIVE! tour, along with his fellow top ten finalists. For each stop of the tour, he reprised his performance of "Easy" from the series.
Prior to competing on "American Idol", Verraros had been open about his sexual orientation through an online journal. "The Advocate... | 6,130,081 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
with the other "American Idol" finalists, whom he described as being very supportive.
Verraros came out publicly during the "American Idol" tour. He also came out to his father at this time. In November 2002, Verraros was named as one of "2002's Most Intriguing People" by "Out", another LGBT-interest maga... | 6,130,082 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
to "The Advocate" in January 2003, which was described as his official "coming out", and in May, he participated in Boston's Youth Pride march.
The "American Idol: Greatest Moments" album, released October 1, 2002, features a recorded version of Verraros singing "Easy". The album reached #4 on the "Billbo... | 6,130,083 |
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Spring of 2003, Verraros participated in Coca-Cola's Behind the Scenes With American Idol promotional tour, in which he and a selection of other finalists from the first two seasons of the series performed across the country in shopping malls owned by the Simon Property Group.
### "Unsaid and Understood"... | 6,130,084 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
salon and at a phone bank. "Unsaid and Understood" was included on a list of six indie albums by gay and lesbian artists recommended by Adam B. Vary of "The Advocate". Vary wrote that Verraros "sings with true passion and bracing maturity" on the album and singled out the track "So Deep", for being "so dir... | 6,130,085 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Male. A tour of gay clubs was undertaken to promote the album.
Around the same time that Verraros was recording "Unsaid and Understood", Q. Allan Brocka, an "American Idol" fan, cast Verraros as Kyle in his 2004 gay-themed comedy "Eating Out". The film was produced on a budget of less than $1 million by A... | 6,130,086 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Vary (along with Dennis Hensley) placed "Eating Out" among a group of films released in the mid-2000s that he and Hensley felt constituted a "New New Queer Cinema", after the initial "New Queer Cinema" movement faded in the 1990s. Vary also argued that, as a college sex comedy, "Eating Out" is notable for ... | 6,130,087 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
and Understood" to "every major label in the U.S. two or three times" without success. Verraros then pursued a record deal in the United Kingdom, hoping that British labels would be more willing to work with an openly gay artist, although nothing materialized from this. New York-based indie label Koch Reco... | 6,130,088 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
debut. The album recycles several songs from "Unsaid and Understood", in addition to featuring new material.
Several publications noted that Verraros went through a significant image change between his time on "American Idol" and the release of "Rollercoaster". Verraros explained that he had "come into [h... | 6,130,089 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
and "long rock-star hair" when "Rollercoaster" was released. The "Houston Chronicle" added that the "shaggy dark cut, eye makeup and slick threads" that Verraros had adopted at the time gave him sex appeal. Verraros himself assessed his look on "American Idol" as having been "[very] Midwestern" - he said t... | 6,130,090 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
The song debuted at number forty-eight on the "Billboard" Dance Club Play Chart, where it spent eleven weeks, peaking in early June at number twenty-one.
"You're Getting Crazy (Estas Enloqueciendo)" was released in October as the album's second single. "Billboard" wrote that it "treads in similar territor... | 6,130,091 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
for any of the songs on "Rollercoaster".
Shortly after releasing "Rollercoaster", Verraros moved back to Crystal Lake, where he lived with his family for a time. Over the summer, he performed at the wrap party for "American Idol"'s fourth season, served as a judge during the finals of "Windy City Gay Idol... | 6,130,092 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
He also performed, along with "American Idol" season two third place finalist Kimberley Locke, at the Kansas City Gay Pride Festival in June and at the New York City Gay Life Expo in November. A club tour was considered to promote "Rollercoaster".
#### Sloppy Seconds" and unrealized film projects.
Twice... | 6,130,093 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
the "Washington Examiner" wrote that Verraros "has been a fixture in the gay world...practically becoming a gay sex-symbol through the years." Verraros remained the only "American Idol" finalist to be publicly out until 2006, when his fellow season one finalist R.J. Helton came out. Helton had confided in ... | 6,130,094 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
but passed directorial duties over to the first film's editor, Phillip J. Bartell. The film features a song written by Verraros and Lopez, called "You Make It Better", which was released as a single on July 17, 2007. Like its predecessor, "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds" received mostly negative reviews. It ... | 6,130,095 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Rewind", filmed a guest appearance on the pilot for a cooking show called "The Astrological Kitchen", and released a duet called "Sweat" with indie artist Jamie O'Brien. Once again, Verraros was named to "Out" magazine's "Most Intriguing People" list for that year.
In November 2006, it was reported that V... | 6,130,096 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
Herald" wrote that a follow-up to "Rollercoaster" was scheduled to be released that May. Verraros had also told Atlantaboy.com that he was "heading more toward the film thing" and that if he ever released a music video, he would hope to co-direct it. Around this time, he mentioned that he had been cast in ... | 6,130,097 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
a gay LA-based romantic comedy. By July 2007, Verraros still had not released his second album. It was announced over the summer that he was "writing and recording [the album] in Malibu, California" with producers Gary Miller and John Porter. On a July podcast for the "Windy City Times", Verraros said that... | 6,130,098 |
536375 | Jim Verraros | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jim%20Verraros | Jim Verraros
that a kid got to number eight or nine on 'American Idol' with parents who are deaf...His story makes me cry, when he realized that even though the whole country was cheering for him because they loved his voice, the two people that he loved the most would never be able to hear him sing." Verraros appeared... | 6,130,099 |
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