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1,800 | Zorro (novel) Diego eventually becomes Don Diego de La Vega, a wealthy gentleman, but at night rides for justice with his two friends, Isabel and Bernardo. Allende uses a mix of fictional characters borrowed from earlier Zorro works and invented for the novel, along with a smattering of historical characters. "Zorro" c... |
1,801 | Ancient economic thought Persian philosopher Ibn Miskawayh (born 1030) notes: This view is in conflict with an idea Joseph Schumpeter called the Great (Schumpeterian) Gap, which comes from his 1954 book "History of Economic Analysis", claiming a break in economic thought during the 500-year period between the decline o... |
1,802 | Rose v Royal College of Physicians The College annals stated their decision: “that Mr Swift, the attorney of the College prosecute the said William Rose forthwith”. In the meantime, Seale had accused Rose of returning to him with rage against the allegations. Mr Swift, with the support of the King’s Bench subsequently ... |
1,803 | Shielded metal arc welding These curtains, made of a polyvinyl chloride plastic film, shield nearby workers from exposure to the UV light from the electric arc, but should not be used to replace the filter glass used in helmets. In addition, the vaporizing metal and flux materials expose welders to dangerous gases and ... |
1,804 | Anti-communism Michael Parenti holds that communist regimes, as flawed as they were, nevertheless played a role in "tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism" and chastises left-wing anti-communists in particular for failing to understand that in the post-Cold War era, Western business interest... |
1,805 | Norman Borlaug In 1964, he was made the director of the International Wheat Improvement Program at El Batán, Texcoco, on the eastern fringes of Mexico City, as part of the newly established Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center "(Centro Internaciona... |
1,806 | Coolidge effect Further research done on spiders also supports the possibility of absence of the in certain species. Another study that focused on the in simultaneously hermaphroditic species confirmed the validity of the in freshwater snail "Lymnaea stagnalis". "Biomphalaria glabrata", another simultaneous hermaphrodi... |
1,807 | Heat meter A heat meter or flux calorimeter is a device which measures thermal energy provided by a source or delivered to a sink, by measuring the flow rate of the heat transfer fluid and the change in its temperature (ΔT) between the outflow and return legs of the system. It is typically used in industrial plants for... |
1,808 | Eville Gorham This suggested that the radiation was not the result of the Windscale fire, but rather was global radioactive fallout. Gorham wrote a paper about his findings and sent it to "Nature" for review. It was published as the lead article. Gorham continued to test radioactivity in plants and discovered that lich... |
1,809 | Bhagavad Gita Bhakti is the most important means of attaining liberation. Other classical commentators include Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has strongly pitched the as "India's biggest gift to the world". Modi gifted The to the then President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama in 2014 during hi... |
1,810 | Ornament (art) As well as revived classical ornament, both architectural and the grotesque style derived from Roman interior decoration, these included new styles such as the moresque, a European adaptation of the Islamic arabesque (a distinction not always clear at the time). As printing became cheaper, the single orn... |
1,811 | Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time zone observed throughout India, with a time offset of . India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time IST is designated E* ("Echo-Star"). is calculated on the basis of 82.5′ E longitude in the city of Mirzapur, Uttar Prade... |
1,812 | Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment As the SELEX reaction approaches completion, the fraction of the oligonucleotide library that binds target approaches 100%, such that the number of eluted molecules approaches the total oligonucleotide input estimate, but may converge at a lower number. Some SEL... |
1,813 | Lidar The species is labelled and its features are initially stored as an example to identify the species in the real environment. This method is efficient because it uses a low-resolution lidar and supervised learning. It includes an easy-to-compute feature set with common statistical features which are independent of... |
1,814 | Nous The human "nous" in Eastern Orthodox Christianity is the "eye of the heart or soul" or the "mind of the heart". The soul of man, is created by God in His image, man's soul is intelligent and noetic. Saint Thalassius of Syria wrote that God created beings "with a capacity to receive the Spirit and to attain knowled... |
1,815 | New Lab Recladding the building's armature and repurposing of the 51,000 ft machine shop into an 84,000 ft multidisciplinary design, prototyping, and advanced manufacturing space took approximately 5 years and continued until the company's full opening in September 2016. The undertaking utilized approximately 9,000 lbs... |
1,816 | Human interactions with insects Zeus granted her request, but, because Eos forgot to ask him to also make Tithonus ageless, Tithonus never died, but he did grow old. Eventually, he became so tiny and shriveled that he turned into the first cicada. In an ancient Sumerian poem, a fly helps the goddess Inanna when her hus... |
1,817 | End-of-the-day betting effect Because the racetrack takes a hefty bite out of each dollar, most people are down money when the last races near. Anything below this target is regarded as a loss and triggers risk-seeking behavior in an attempt to break even. Diminishing sensitivity to successive losses means that the cos... |
1,818 | Collective unconscious It is the matrix of all conscious psychic occurrences, and hence it exerts an influence that compromises the freedom of consciousness in the highest degree, since it is continually striving to lead all conscious processes back into the old paths. On October 19, 1936, Jung delivered a lecture "The... |
1,819 | Season In the tropics, where seasonal dates also vary, it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season. For example, in Nicaragua the dry season (November to April) is called "summer" and the rainy season (May to October) is called "winter", even though it is located in the nor... |
1,820 | My Struggle (Knausgård novels) Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides said that Knausgård "broke the sound barrier of the autobiographical novel". In a long and largely positive review of the first "Min Kamp" books, James Wood of "The New Yorker" wrote that "There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgård’s book: even wh... |
1,821 | Phreatic is a term used in hydrology to refer to aquifers, in speleology to refer to cave passages, and in volcanology to refer to eruption type. The term phreatic is used in hydrology and the earth sciences to refer to matters relating to ground water (an aquifer) below the water table (the word originates from the Gr... |
1,822 | Jazz Age According to Schuller, by comparison, the solos by Armstrong's bandmates (including a young Coleman Hawkins), sounded "stiff, stodgy," with "jerky rhythms and a grey undistinguished tone quality." The following example shows a short excerpt of the straight melody of "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind" by George W. Meye... |
1,823 | Emilia (Sítio do Picapau Amarelo) Emília, also known as the Marchioness of Rabicó or Emília, A Boneca Gente ("The Human Doll") is a fictional character and a titular of the "Sítio do Picapau Amarelo" series of fantasy novels written by Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato. A doll with a rough, antagonistic personality and ... |
1,824 | Historical ecology Clark Erickson observes that pre-Hispanic savanna peoples of the Bolivian Amazon built an anthropogenic landscape through the construction of raised fields, large settlement mounds, and earthen causeways. Erickson, on the basis of location, form, patterning, associations and ethnographic analogy, ide... |
1,825 | Universal history The universal chronicle differs from the ordinary chronicle in its much broader chronological and geographical scope, giving, in principle, a continuous account of the progress of world history from the creation of the world up to the author's own times, but in practice often narrowing down to a more ... |
1,826 | Hayandose The theories of de/territorialization and entail the movement of culture from one place to another, and thus reveal the “multiple centers” culture can obtain, as opposed to just a single "center" being the place of origin. Because migration causes displacement among emigrants who are forced to adapt to a new ... |
1,827 | Musikhjälpen For the third time in a row, rapper Jason Diakité hosted the show, along with TV-personality Gina Dirawi and radio presenter Kodjo Akolor. The theme for this year was that all girls should have the right to get an education. The travelling reporters for this year were comedian Klara Zimmergren and artist D... |
1,828 | Khajuraho Group of Monuments The raid was unsuccessful, and a peace accord was reached when the Hindu king agreed to pay a ransom to Mahmud of Ghazni to end the attack and leave. Khajuraho temples were in active use through the end of the 12th century. This changed in the 13th century; after the army of Delhi Sultanate... |
1,829 | Eastern philosophy Hinduism has been called the "oldest religion" in the world and is traditionally called "", "the eternal law" or the "eternal way"; beyond human origins. Western scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no single founder. Some... |
1,830 | Frequency (gene) Sargent, Winslow R. Briggs and Dow O. Woodward at Stanford University reported that overt expression of the developmental rhythm in conidiation was enhanced in a strain of "Neurospora" called "Timex."" "(This strain contained a mutation in the locus "band (bd)", later shown to encode a mildly hyperacti... |
1,831 | Rights Liberty rights and claim rights are the inverse of one another: a person has a liberty right permitting him to do something only if there is no other person who has a claim right forbidding him from doing so. Likewise, if a person has a claim right against someone else, then that other person's liberty is limite... |
1,832 | Zehra Sayers (born 25 September 1953) is a Turkish structural biologist. She has previously served as President of the Sabancı University and chaired the advisory committee for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME). She was awarded the AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy i... |
1,833 | Marine engineering Engineers also face the challenge of balancing cargo as the mass of the ship increase and the center of gravity shifts higher as additional containers are stacked vertically. In addition, the weight of fuel presents a problem as the pitch of the ship cause the weight to shift with the liquid causing ... |
1,834 | Penn–Calvert boundary dispute However, the charter only granted the Calverts the right to "uncultivated" lands. The colonists arrived in Maryland in 1634, but made no attempts at surveying the northern border or colonizing the area along the Delaware Bay. The colony of New Sweden was established north of the Delaware B... |
1,835 | British Supreme Court for China In 1913 the building was expanded to add a Police Court (on the ground floor) and a second court (on the first floor) immediately south of the main court room. Rooms of similar size were built to the north for consular offices. The building still stands to this day and can be seen from Y... |
1,836 | VU meter The consumer audio industry often uses volume indicators that do not comply with any standard. BBC sound engineers would refer to the as the "Virtually Useless" meter, preferring the PPM. Academic research has shown that a SVI or behaves differently to the average value and RMS meters. The ballistics shown by ... |
1,837 | Autarky Boycotters set up their own self-sufficient system of cheap or free transit to allow black residents to get to work and avoid using the then-segregated public systems in a successful effort to bring political pressure. After World War II, Autonomist efforts in Europe embraced local autarkic projects in an effor... |
1,838 | Archaeoastronomy Ancient texts like Hesiod's Works and Days, an ancient farming manual, would appear to partially confirm this: astronomical observations are used in combination with ecological signs, such as bird migrations to determine the seasons. Ethnoastronomical studies of the Hopi of the southwestern United Stat... |
1,839 | Violence in art modern art which depict scenes of sexual intensity and bondage"; as such, the scene depicts a "...struggle between high-culture which has aestheticized violence and sex into a form of autonomous art, and the very image of post-modern mastery". In Xavier Morales' review of Quentin Tarantino's "", entitle... |
1,840 | 2020 Venezuelan National Assembly Delegated Committee election According to a survey carried out by Datanálisis in early February 2020: 39% of Venezuelans consider that there is a legitimate National Assembly presided by Juan Guaidó, 36% consider that there is no legitimate National Assembly for the moment, 16% does no... |
1,841 | Garmin Forerunner This version was originally supposed to be released in Q4 of 2011, but the November date had slipped and it was eventually released in Q1 of 2012. New features are the inclusion of the SiRFStar iv chipset, a barometric altimeter, and improved swimming metrics using an accelerometer in the watch. This ... |
1,842 | Cocaine (data page) This page provides supplementary chemical data on Cocaine. The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions. Except where note... |
1,843 | Matanuska Valley Colony Plots of land were given out through a draw, with the majority of the plots still forested. The colonists quickly got to work clearing their land in order to comply with the government contracts they signed. The Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation (ARRC) was the governing body of the colony.... |
1,844 | NTSC-J is used as the name of the video gaming region of Japan (hence the "J"), South East Asia (some countries only), Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Philippines and South Korea (now NTSC-K) (formerly part of SE Asia with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, etc.). Most games designated as part of this region will not run on hardware ... |
1,845 | Rocket engine During the process of man-rating Atlas for Project Mercury, solving combustion instability was a high priority, and the final two Mercury flights sported an upgraded propulsion system with baffled injectors and a hypergolic igniter. The problem affecting Atlas vehicles was mainly the so-called "racetrack"... |
1,846 | Duo LNB In fact, it can be difficult to physically fit two separate LNBs onto a dish at the correct separation for Astra 23.5°E and Astra 19.2°E because their bulk may prevent the feedhorns sitting close enough together. The is carefully designed with the correct spacing of the feedhorns, DiSEqC level 1.0 switching bet... |
1,847 | CarWings The VICS (Vehicle Information and Communication System) feature is a service offered only in Japan that provides traffic information and is broadcast digitally on FM radio frequencies. By selecting this feature, the system will connect you to a call center, where a destination can be sent to your vehicle by an... |
1,848 | Islamic views on slavery represent a complex and multifaceted body of Islamic thought, with various Islamic groups or thinkers espousing views on the matter which have been radically different throughout history. Slavery was a mainstay of life in pre-Islamic Arabia and surrounding lands. The Quran and the "hadith" (say... |
1,849 | Vocabulario trilingüe The (; Spanish for "trilingual vocabulary"; Ayer MS 1478) is an anonymous 16th-century manuscript copy of the second edition (1516) of Antonio de Nebrija's Spanish-Latin dictionary, which has been expanded by the addition of Nahuatl translations of its entries in red ink. The manuscript is current... |
1,850 | Ceramic art Cultures especially noted for ceramics include the Chinese, Cretan, Greek, Persian, Mayan, Japanese, and Korean cultures, as well as the modern Western cultures. Elements of ceramic art, upon which different degrees of emphasis have been placed at different times, are the shape of the object, its decoration... |
1,851 | Side letter (contract law) A side letter or side agreement or side letter arrangement is an agreement that is not part of the underlying or primary contract or agreement, and which some or all parties to the contract use to reach agreement on issues the primary contract does not cover or that need clarification, or to ... |
1,852 | Firefighter Hearing loss prevention programs have been implemented in multiple stations and have shown to help lower the rate of firefighters with NIHL. Other attempts have been made to lower sound exposures for firefighters, such as enclosing the cabs of the firetrucks to lower the siren exposure while driving. NFPA (... |
1,853 | Chattri, Brighton The Chattri is a war memorial in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is sited above the city on the South Downs above the suburb of Patcham, and is accessible only by bridleway. It stands on the site where a number of Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire were cremated during the Fir... |
1,854 | Shoelace formula The quadrilateral is divided into two triangles with areas formula_5 and formula_24 Using the triangle formula on each triangle we get Since both triangles were traced in a counterclockwise direction, both areas are positive and we get the area of the quadrilateral by adding the two areas. The last pos... |
1,855 | Political pensioner A political pensioner enjoys a pension awarded due to his or political career or significance. By the Political Offices Pension Act 1869, pensions were instituted for those who had held political office. For the purposes of the act, political offices were divided into three classes: For service in t... |
1,856 | Graphene production techniques While significant control has been in growing and characterizing epitaxial graphene, challenges remain in being able to fully exploit the potential of these structures. The promise lies in the hope that charge carriers on these graphene structures, like carbon nanotubes, remain ballistic.... |
1,857 | Sip-and-puff or sip 'n' puff (SNP) is assistive technology used to send signals to a device using air pressure by "sipping" (inhaling) or "puffing" (exhaling) on a straw, tube or "wand." It is primarily used by people who do not have the use of their hands. It is commonly used to control a motorized wheelchair by quadr... |
1,858 | Patrick Norton Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there. Norton chose to stay in San Francisco instead of moving to ... |
1,859 | Steve Jobs Although the Macintosh preceded the clones, it was far more expensive, so "through the late 1980s, the Windows user interface was getting better and better and was thus taking increasingly more share from Apple". Windows-based IBM-PC clones also led to the development of additional GUIs such as IBM's TopView... |
1,860 | Biomaterial Such functions may be relatively passive, like being used for a heart valve, or may be bioactive with a more interactive functionality such as hydroxy-apatite coated hip implants. Biomaterials are also used every day in dental applications, surgery, and drug delivery. For example, a construct with impregnat... |
1,861 | Indemnity and Oblivion Act Historians, on the other hand, have generally praised the King and Clarendon for the generosity and clemency of the Act, in an age not normally noted for mercy. Twenty years later, during the Popish Plot, Charles tried unsuccessfully to stand against the relentless demand for the execution of... |
1,862 | Virotherapy In 2015 the FDA approved the marketing of talimogene laherparepvec, a genetically engineered herpes virus, to treat melanoma lesions that cannot be operated on; it is injected directly into the lesion. As of 2016 there was no evidence that it extends the life of people with melanoma, or that it prevents met... |
1,863 | Hyperspectral imaging Hyperspectral imaging, like other spectral imaging, collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detect... |
1,864 | NK-92 NantKwest's authorized distributor is Brink Biologics, which makes cells and certain genetically modified variants available for laboratory assays and in vivo research, including ADCC assays that quantify the contribution of ADCC in the therapeutic effect of monoclonal antibodies (Brink Biologics' Neukopanel) and... |
1,865 | Forensic facial reconstruction This disparity greatly affects the accuracy of reconstructions. Until this data is expanded, the likelihood of producing the most accurate reconstruction possible is largely limited. A second problem is the lack of a methodological standardization in approximating facial features. A singl... |
1,866 | Physical optics In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. This usage tends not to include effects such as quantum noise in optical communication, which i... |
1,867 | Stress (mechanics) This number will be positive if "P" is "pulling" on "Q" (tensile stress), and negative if "P" is "pushing" against "Q" (compressive stress) The shear component is then the vector . The dimension of stress is that of pressure, and therefore its coordinates are commonly measured in the same units as pr... |
1,868 | Adaptive sampling is a technique used in computational molecular biology to efficiently simulate protein folding. Proteins spend a large portion – nearly 96% in some cases – of their folding time "waiting" in various thermodynamic free energy minima. Consequently, a straightforward simulation of this process would spen... |
1,869 | Charles Rees Much of his work was concerned with heterocyclic chemistry, particularly the synthesis and chemistry of new heterocyclic rings, with an emphasis on aromatic and antiaromatic rings, and the role of reactive intermediates in heterocyclic chemistry. Recently, he had been working on heterocyclic systems with u... |
1,870 | 3D reconstruction from multiple images Let formula_15 be written as formula_16, where Then the Kruppa equations are rewritten (the derivation can be found in ) This method is based on the use of rigidity constraint. Design a cost function, which considers the intrinsic parameters as arguments and the fundamental matric... |
1,871 | Jehovah's Witnesses and congregational discipline Elders may also give recommendations or warnings to members in non-judicial situations. At conventions and assemblies, and about once each month at a local midweek meeting, a short talk regarding "local needs" is presented. An elder addresses matters that are relevant t... |
1,872 | Switch In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of switch is an electromechanical device consisting of one or more sets... |
1,873 | Arbitration Act 1996 " If any legal proceedings are commenced against a party which are subject to an arbitration agreement, then the party may apply to the court for a stay of those legal proceedings, and the Act provides that the court "shall grant a stay unless [it is] satisfied that the arbitration agreement is nul... |
1,874 | Frameup A frameup where a police officer shoots an unarmed suspect and then places a weapon near the body is a form of police misconduct known as a "throw down". This is used to justify the shooting by making it appear that the officer fired in self-defence or to defend other bystanders. In British usage, to frame, or ... |
1,875 | Minigene Determining the complete set of components involved in splicing presents many challenges due to the abundance of alternative splicing, which occurs in most human genes, and the specificity in which splicing is carried out "in vivo". Splicing is distinctly conducted from cell type to cell type and across differ... |
1,876 | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Boutell served as honorary secretary from 23 July to 27 November 1857, but was dismissed for what was termed "improper" bookkeeping involving the disappearance of £56 15s received in subscription fees. Also active in the early decades were John Gough Nichols and Edward Brabro... |
1,877 | Oriental rug Two or more spun yarns may be twisted together or "plied" to form a thicker yarn. Generally, handspun single plies are spun with a Z-twist, and plying is done with an S-twist. With the exception of Mamluk carpets, nearly all the rugs produced in the countries of the rug belt use "Z" (anti-clockwise) spun a... |
1,878 | Optical head-mounted display On 17 May 2013, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to manufacture the Meta 1, an augmented reality wearable display that is based on Epson's Moverio BT-100. Meta's outward-facing camera captures gestures allowing users to interact with virtual games, architectural re... |
1,879 | Slow sand filter Slow sand filters have a number of unique qualities: While many municipal water treatment works will have 12 or more beds in use at any one time, smaller communities or households may only have one or two filter beds. In the base of each bed is a series of herringbone drains that are covered with a lay... |
1,880 | Naomi Klein Released in June 2018 as paperback and e-book, "The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists" covers what San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz refers to as the post-Hurricane Maria unmasked colonialism leading to inequality and "creating a fierce humanitarian crisis."<ref name="Haymark... |
1,881 | Anthony Gethryn Anthony Ruthven Gethryn is a character depicted in novels by Philip MacDonald and their cinematic counterparts. Gethryn is the series detective for more than a dozen of Philip MacDonald's murder mysteries, written between 1924 and 1959. He is an amateur detective who works closely with the police to pur... |
1,882 | Ethnomethodology The focus of the investigation used in our example is the social order of surfing, the ethnomethodological interest is in the "how" (the methods and practices) of the production and maintenance of this social order. In essence ethnomethodology attempts to create classifications of the social actions of... |
1,883 | Good citizenship 'Good citizenship' is when one properly fulfills their role as a citizen. There are many opinions as to what constitutes a good citizen. Theodore Roosevelt said, "The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours every body hates you and death to all." ict peacefully and fairly, and petiti... |
1,884 | Visual computing is a generic term for all computer science disciplines handling with images and 3D models, i.e. computer graphics, image processing, visualization, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, video processing, but also includes aspects of pattern recognition, human computer interaction, machine lea... |
1,885 | Two truths doctrine "Satya" is usually taken to mean "truth", but does also refer to "a reality," "a genuinely real existent." "Satya" (Sat-yá) is derived from "Sat" and "ya". "Sat" means being, reality, and is the present participle of the root "as" "to be" (PIE ""; cognate to English "is"). "Ya" and "yam" means "adva... |
1,886 | History of the race and intelligence controversy While not objecting to research into intelligence "per se", they felt that this research was politically motivated and objected to the reification of intelligence: the treatment of the numerical quantity "g" as a physical attribute like skin colour that could be meaningf... |
1,887 | Einstein relation (kinetic theory) Thus the Einstein–Smoluchowski relation results into the Stokes–Einstein relation In the case of rotational diffusion, the friction is formula_19, and the rotational diffusion constant formula_20 is In a semiconductor with an arbitrary density of states, i.e. a relation of the form fo... |
1,888 | OpenAI The corpus it was trained on, called WebText, contains slightly over 8 million documents for a total of 40 GB of text from URLs shared in Reddit submissions with at least 3 upvotes. It avoids certain issues encoding vocabulary with word tokens by using byte pair encoding. This allows to represent any string of c... |
1,889 | Cousin marriage It is unknown what proportion of that number were first cousins, which is the group facing marriage bans. To contextualize the group's size, the total proportion of interracial marriages in 1960, the last census year before the end of anti-miscegenation statutes, was 0.4%, and the proportion of black-wh... |
1,890 | Christian theosophy '" Faivre stated that "Theosophy is a gnosis that has a bearing not only on the salvific relations the individual maintains with the divine world, but also on the nature of God Himself, or of divine persons, and on the natural universe, the origin of that universe, the hidden structures that constit... |
1,891 | The Taming of the Shrew ] without the metadramatic potentialities of the Sly-framework, any production of "Shrew" is thrown much more passively at the mercy of the director's artistic and political ideology." Coppélia Kahn suggests "the transformation of Christopher Sly from drunken lout to noble lord, a transformation... |
1,892 | George Washington Masonic National Memorial With these books in danger of deterioration, a library had to be constructed immediately and at least one elevator installed in order to reach the library room in the tower. Additional landscaping had to be done in order to reduce the fire danger in the area, walls had to be ... |
1,893 | Otto Laporte Award The (1972–2003) was an annual award by the American Physical Society (APS) to ""recognize outstanding contributions to fluid dynamics"" and to honour Otto Laporte (1902–1971). It was established as the Otto Laporte Memorial Lectureship by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in 1972, and became an APS ... |
1,894 | FATVillage There are a variety of services available at FATVillage, not only for artists but also community members and tourists as well. For artists or those looking to host their own events, offers space rental services to accommodate for these needs. Additionally, those visiting can enjoy a variety of consumer servi... |
1,895 | Michael Messner When a women's workshop was held demonstrating that it is wrong for a husband to beat his wife, one man asked, "But if we can't beat our wives what can we do when they won't have sex with us?" This shows a universal, somewhat exaggerated, example of how women are seen in society, as childbearers. Male e... |
1,896 | Thai language Thai, as the most-spoken language in the Tai-Kadai language family, has been used extensively in historical-comparative linguistics to identify the origins of language(s) spoken in the ancient region of South China. One of the very few direct records of non-Sinitic speech in pre-Qin and Han times having b... |
1,897 | Patentleft (also patent left, copyleft-style patent license or open patent) is the practice of licensing patents (especially biological patents) for royalty-free use, on the condition that adopters license related improvements they develop under the same terms. Copyleft-style licensors seek "continuous growth of a univ... |
1,898 | Windows Live Messenger Although no notable changes were made between Beta 3 and the final version, the change from MSN Messenger to brought some additional changes, such as customization for the nicknames of individual contacts, timestamps on messages, the ability to see a contact's name only once if the same person wr... |
1,899 | Deregulation The "Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act" was a regulating law, consisting of a mix of regulations and deregulation, which passed in response to OPEC price hikes and domestic price controls which affected the 1973 oil crisis in the United States. After adoption of this federal legislation, numerous state le... |
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