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1200 | "F.C. Carlow"
Carlow, Wicklow and Wexford. During the mid-2000s the academy entered teams in the Foyle Cup and the Galway Cup, playing against youth teams representing Celtic F.C., Bohemians, Calgary Foothills F.C. and the Republic of Ireland U15s. In 2007 the academy announced their plans to enter a team in the League of Ireland U20 Division, using the name South East F.C., however they subsequently entered the division under the name F.C. Carlow. On 28 September 2008 the club made their debut in the U20 Division with a home game against Cobh Ramblers. Between 2009 and 2011, F.C. Carlow played in the |
1201 | Wahlern
is instead shipped to 3150 Schwarzenburg or 3148 Lanzenhäusern. The farm house ""Aeckenmatt"" at Aeckenmatt 6, the ruins of Grasburg Castle, the ""Frühmesskapelle"" at Käppeligässli 5, the ""Rossgrabenbrücke"" (bridge, shared with Rüeggisberg), Schwarzenburg Castle and the granary at Henzischwand 298 A are all listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. The entire village of Schwarzenburg and the hamlets of Äckenmatt and Elisried are designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. Wahlern Wahlern is a former municipality of the canton of Bern in Switzerland and seat of the Bern-Mittelland administrative district. On 1 January 2011, the former |
1202 | "Italian invasion of Egypt"
the coast road, renamed ""Via della Vittoria"" from Bardia and a water pipe, which were not expected to be ready before mid-December, after which the advance would be resumed advance would go as far as Matruh. Mussolini wrote on 26 October, and two days later, on 28 October, the Italians invaded Greece, beginning the Greco-Italian War. Graziani was allowed to continue planning at a leisurely pace and an Italian advance to Matruh was scheduled for mid-December. From the 10th Army had casualties of killed and Several tanks and lorries broke down and six aircraft were lost, two to accidents. On |
1203 | "Italian invasion of Egypt"
17 September, the Mediterranean Fleet began to harass Italian communications and Benghazi harbour was mined. A destroyer and two merchant ships were sunk by torpedo, and a destroyer hit a mine at Benghazi and sank. RAF Blenheims destroyed three aircraft on the ground at Benina. The road on the escarpment was bombarded near Sollum by a navy gunboat and targets near Sidi Barrani by two destroyers, from which fires and explosions were seen. Captured Italians spoke of damage, casualties, and a loss of morale. An attempt to bombard Bardia by a cruiser and destroyers was thwarted by an attack by |
1204 | "Laxmi Ganesh Tewari"
Ghana, and Zimbabwe. In addition to his books and recordings, Tewari's articles have appeared in ""South Asia Research"", ""South Asia Journal"", and ""Asian Folklore Studies"". Personal recordings Documentary recordings from field research Laxmi Ganesh Tewari Pandit Laxmi Ganesh Tewari (born 8 September 1938) is a Hindustani vocalist from India. He is an exponent of the Gwalior gharana (tradition) of vocal music. After studying with Dr. Lalmani Misra at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, he pursued education and teaching opportunities in America. At Sonoma State University since 1974, his career has combined performance, scholarship and teaching. Born in 1938 in Kanpur, |
1205 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
Rincon Hill, San Francisco Rincon Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 49 hills, and one of its original ""Seven Hills."" The relatively compact neighborhood is bounded by Folsom Street to the north, the Embarcadero to the east, Bryant Street on the south, and Essex Street to the west. Rincon Hill is located just south of the Transbay development area, part of the greater South of Market area. The hill is about 100 feet (30 m) tall. Following the California Gold Rush, Rincon Hill was built up as a fashionable and prestigious residential |
1206 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
neighborhood. After it was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, the neighborhood was slow to rebuild and largely became an industrial area with small factories and warehouses. In 1985, and revised in 2005, the area was rezoned into a high-density residential neighborhood designed to house up to 10,000 new residents in close proximity to the city's Financial District. The area comprising Rincon Hill was originally a sandy peninsula forming the southern shoreline of Yerba Buena Cove. The peninsula terminated at Rincon Point, near Harrison and Spear streets, from which Rincon Hill derives its name. ""Rincón"" is Spanish for ""corner"", |
1207 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
and the point formed the southern corner of the cove. Prior to the Gold Rush of 1849, the Rincon Hill area was largely unsettled, as most early development was on the north side of the Cove, near Portsmouth Square. With the influx of gold seekers, the cove was filled in and the street grid expanded. Rincon Hill's views and sunny climate made it attractive to families of merchants, sea captains, and other professional classes who sought refuge from the notorious Barbary Coast. During the 1850s and 1860s, the city's most prestigious residential neighborhoods were located south of Market Street on |
1208 | "2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season"
2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season The 2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season was the Ducks' tenth season in franchise history. The club qualified for the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history, falling to the New Jersey Devils. Although the Ducks eventually won the Stanley Cup 4 years later, the Ducks failed to bring another championship to Anaheim, after their MLB counterparts, the Anaheim Angels won their first World Series title the year before. On February 12, 2003, Mike Leclerc scored just ten seconds into the overtime period to give the Mighty Ducks a 4–3 home |
1209 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
residential trend shifted towards new mansions built on the taller hills north of Market Street, especially Nob Hill. In ""The Wrecker"" (1892), Robert Louis Stevenson described Rincon Hill as ""a new slum, a place of precarious sandy cliffs, deep sandy cuttings, solitary ancient houses and butt ends of streets."" The 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed the remaining Rincon Hill mansions. In their place, a number of rudimentary earthquake shacks sprung up and remained for decades. While much of San Francisco was quickly rebuilt following the earthquake, Rincon Hill remained relatively undeveloped in the ensuing decades. Following the quake, the Marsden |
1210 | "2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season"
game thanks to a Luc Robitaille shot at 9:21. Some of the Detroit players had even left for the dressing room. However, after going to the video review, it was concluded Robitaille's shot ricocheted off the crossbar and the post, and the players were brought back to resume the game. Later, at 3:18 into the third overtime period, Paul Kariya scored the goal that would clinch a 2–1 win for Anaheim and a one-game lead in the series. Anaheim goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere faced 64 shots in game one. In Game 2, Anaheim came back from a 2–1 deficit by scoring |
1211 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
built up as an industrial and maritime district, benefiting from its proximity to the Port of San Francisco and the Southern Pacific rail yards in Mission Bay. In 1934, Rincon Hill was the site of the ""Bloody Thursday"" clashes between striking longshoreman and police, in which two maritime workers were killed, leading to a four-day general strike. In the 1950s, the Embarcadero Freeway was constructed along Folsom Street, surrounding the neighborhood on three sides by freeway ramps, and cutting it off from the Financial District. As the city's industrial and maritime industries declined (as in most U.S. cities), the area |
1212 | "2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season"
four overtimes to decide before Anaheim's Petr Sykora scored the game-winner 47 seconds into the fifth overtime, winning the game for the Ducks, 4–3. Dallas goaltender Marty Turco saw 54 shots while Anaheim's Jean-Sebastien Giguere saw 63. Game 2 saw another game tied after 60 minutes, but this time, Anaheim needed only 1:44 to win the game in the first overtime, 3–2, on a goal by Mike Leclerc. Dallas, much like Detroit in its first-round series against the Ducks, faced a 2–0 deficit headed to Anaheim. Game 3 at Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim was a must-win for the Stars, and |
1213 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
suffered from mediocre architecture, and lacked the pedestrian-oriented streets and open spaces emblematic of San Francisco's cherished neighborhoods. As the city later noted, ""Rincon Hill has seen the construction of bulky, closely spaced residential towers, which block public views, crowd streets, and contribute to a flat, unappealing skyline. These developments have also contributed little to the pedestrian environment, with multiple levels of above-ground parking, and garage entries and featureless walls facing the street."" After the physical and psychological barrier of the Embarcadero Freeway (damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake) was removed in the early 1990s, the area within walking |
1214 | "Pier Saccone Tarlati di Pietramala"
the spring of 1343, following the terms of a truce between Guelfs and Ghibbeline, Pier Saccone exchanged some recently acquired castelli for Rondine. That summer, with Brienne expelled from Florence, Pier Saccone moved again to take control of Arezzo, held by Buodelmonti, whio had the confidence of the Aretini. Pier Saccone ravaged the countryside round about. Capturing Castiglion Fiorentino and its rich treasury of 7,000 florins, Pier Saccone confiscated belongings and imprisoned men and women, some of whom were tortured to extort their goods. The following fighting season he turned against the forces of Perugia and came to terms again |
1215 | "2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season"
elimination. Giguere had now stopped the first 98 shots he saw in the series. In Game 4, The Mighty Ducks won the game, 2–1. Both goals came from Adam Oates, and the Mighty Ducks headed to their first Stanley Cup Final. The only good news for the Wild was that they avoided a fourth consecutive shutout, as Andrew Brunette scored the first Minnesota goal of the series. Still, Giguere was 122-for-123 in the series, a robust .992 save percentage. The Ducks picks at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft in Toronto, Ontario. 2002–03 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim season The 2002–03 Mighty |
1216 | "Rincon Hill, San Francisco"
and the 447-unit 399 Fremont Street started in 2014. A marketing effort, started in 2017, attempts to give Rincon Hill and parts of South Beach / SOMA a new neighborhood name: The East Cut. Rincon Hill, San Francisco Rincon Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 49 hills, and one of its original ""Seven Hills."" The relatively compact neighborhood is bounded by Folsom Street to the north, the Embarcadero to the east, Bryant Street on the south, and Essex Street to the west. Rincon Hill is located just south of the Transbay development |
1217 | "Cal State LA Studios"
Cal State LA Studios Cal State LA Studios is the production area of the Department of Television, Film, and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, the only CSU campus in the Los Angeles basin. Bachelor of Arts degrees are offered in Telecommunications and Film, Broadcast Journalism and Animation. Master of Arts degree programs include Screenwriting and Critical Studies as well as a three option Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Dramatic Writing, Production/Direction, and Performance in Television, Film, & Theatre Arts. Production facilities and equipment include: 3-camera digital television studios, dedicated news studio, nonlinear postproduction workstations, postproduction |
1218 | "Cal State LA Studios"
labs and individual editing suites, 16mm motion picture camera kits, DV and HDV camera kits, field lighting kits, and misc. grip equipment. In 2014 the department open a new building, the Television, Film and Media Studies Center with a new sound stage and audio post production facilities. Cal State LA Studios Cal State LA Studios is the production area of the Department of Television, Film, and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, the only CSU campus in the Los Angeles basin. Bachelor of Arts degrees are offered in Telecommunications and Film, Broadcast Journalism and Animation. Master of Arts |
1219 | "Peter Bergen"
Peter Bergen Peter Bergen (born December 12, 1962) is an American journalist and author who serves as CNN's national security analyst, New America's vice president, and as a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is known for producing the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience. Bergen has since written or edited seven books: ""Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden"" (2001), """" (2006), """" (2011), """" (2012), ""Talibanistan: |
1220 | "Peter Bergen"
Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion"" (2013), ""Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy"" (2014), and """" (2016). Three of the books were ""New York Times"" bestsellers, four of the books were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by the ""Washington Post"" and they have been translated into twenty-one languages. Bergen was born in Minneapolis and grew up in London, the son of Sarah Elizabeth (née Lampert) and David Thomas Bergen. His family was Roman Catholic. He has two sisters: Katherine Bergen and Margaret Bergen. He attended Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire before receiving an |
1221 | "Holger Bertrand Flöttmann"
Stiftische Gymnasium in Gütersloh. In the age of 14 years, he studied during the Easter holidays Freud's Dream analysis. Other books about psychoanalysis from S. Freud and L. Klages followed. After the high school diploma Flöttmann fulfilled the alternative civilian service from 1966 until 1968 in the von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel in Bielefeld in the house Arimathia. During this time he finished the training in a health care assistant. Flöttmann married in the year 1982, out of this marriage came three children. From 1968 until 1974 Flöttmann studied medicine in Kiel, Germany, from 1976 until 1977 he worked in the |
1222 | "Holger Bertrand Flöttmann"
Universitäts–Frauenklinik, Kiel, in the Hospital of Oldenburg/Holstein and in the Städtische Krankenhaus Ravensburg as a medicinal assistant. In the clinic Alpenblick Neutrauchburg he qualified in psychoanalysis and depth psychology from 1976 until 1977. At the same time he trained in Munich at the ""Institut for Group and Family Therapy"", transactional analysis und Gestalt therapy. In the years 1977 from 1983 proceeded the qualification for the consultant of neurology and psychiatry on the university hospital for psychiatry and neurology in Kiel. He acquired the title psychotherapy in 1982, the title psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic medicine in the year 1998. Flöttmann is authorized |
1223 | "Peter Bergen"
multiple congressional committees, including the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee and the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is a member of the Aspen Homeland Security Group. Bergen is the chairman of the board of the Global Special Operations Foundation, which is a non-profit advocating for the interests of special operations forces. He is also on the board of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, which advocates for Americans who are being held hostage and for journalists in conflict zones. He was a fellow at New York University's Center on Law & Security between 2003 and 2011, and |
1224 | "Gregg Johnson"
Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams for the 2008–09 season, where he scored 7 points in the regular season and 3 points during post-season play. Johnson returned to the ECHL in 2009, joining the South Carolina Stingrays' roster. In January 2010, Johnson was selected to represent the Stingrays as an alternate captain for all road games. Johnson did not return to the Stingrays for the 2010–11 season. Gregg Johnson Gregg Johnson (born June 18, 1982 in Windsor, Connecticut) is an American professional ice hockey forward who is currently a Free Agent. He most recently played for the South Carolina Stingrays of the ECHL. |
1225 | "Boalia, Gopalgonj"
Boalia, Gopalgonj Boalia is a village in Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, part of Muksudpur Upazila and Bhabrasur Union. Non-governmental organizations operating in Boalia include Bangladesh Development Acceleration Organisation (BDAO) (the Bangladesh Development Acceleration Organisation), BRAC, CCDB, ASA, World Vision, and HCCB. The main crops grown in Boalia are paddy, wheat, jute, sugarcane, onion, garlic, betel leaf, vegetables and sweet potato. Formerly, the village grew Linseed, sesame, indigo, china, kaun, but these are rarely grown anymore. Boalia also produces the fruits including Mango, jackfruit, papaya, palm, guava, lemon, litchi, coconut, guava, and banana. There are fisheries, hatcheries, poultry and dairy farms in |
1226 | "Peter Bergen"
of the best non-fiction books of 2012, and ""The Guardian"" named it one of the key books on Islamist extremism. It was the 2012 ""Sunday Times"" (UK) Current Affairs Book of the Year. The book was awarded the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Award for best non-fiction book of 2012 on international affairs. ""Manhunt"" was the basis of the HBO documentary film, ""Manhunt"", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Emmy award for Outstanding Documentary in 2013. Bergen was Executive Producer of the film. He was awarded the Stephen Ambrose History Award in 2014. Bergen co-edited with |
1227 | "Peter Bergen"
Katherine Tiedemann ""Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion"", a collection of essays about the Taliban that was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. He co-edited with Daniel Rothenberg ""Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy"", published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. In 2016, Bergen published """". It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2016 by the ""Washington Post"". HBO adapted the book for the documentary film ""Homegrown: The Counterterror Dilemma"". Bergen has worked as a correspondent for the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, and CNN. He co-produced with Tresha Mabile the National |
1228 | "Peter Bergen"
Geographic Channel documentary, ""American War Generals"" (2014). Bergen and Mabile also produced CNN Films' ""Legion of Brothers,"" which premiered at Sundance in January 2017. It was released in theaters in June 2017. It was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Politics and Government documentary. On May 2, 2016, which was the five-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, CNN aired the documentary ""We Got Him: President Obama, Bin Laden, and the Future of the War on Terror"". In addition to speaking with President Barack Obama in his first sit-down interview in the Situation Room, Bergen also conducted the |
1229 | "Peter Bergen"
first in-depth interview with the architect of the bin Laden raid, Admiral William H. McRaven, as well as interviewing senior administration officials including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Four of Bergen's books have been made into documentaries for CNN, HBO and National Geographic. The documentaries based on ""Holy War, Inc."" and ""The Osama bin Laden I Know"" were nominated for Emmys in 2001 and 2006. Bergen was a producer of those films. ""Manhunt"" was the basis of the HBO documentary film, ""Manhunt,"" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2013. |
1230 | "Peter Bergen"
Bergen was Executive Producer of the film. HBO adapted ""United States of Jihad"" for the 2016 documentary film, ""Homegrown: The Counterterror Dilemma."" Bergen was Executive Producer of the film. In 1997, as a producer for CNN, Bergen produced bin Laden's first television interview, in which he declared war against the United States for the first time to a Western audience. In 1994 he won the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award for best foreign affairs documentary for the CNN program ""Kingdom of Cocaine,"" which was also nominated for an Emmy. Bergen co-produced the CNN documentary, ""Terror Nation,"" which traced |
1231 | "The Chosen Few (reggae group)"
line-up changed again, with McDonald being replaced by Errol Brown, the group working with producer Lloyd Charmers and enjoying hits with versions of The Stylistics' ""People Make The World Go Round"" among others, followed in 1973 by the album ""Hit After Hit"". This was followed in 1975 by ""Everybody Plays The Fool"" and in 1976 by the Miami-recorded ""Night and Day"" album (aka ""The Chosen Few In Miami""), mixing reggae on one side with soul on the other, and featuring guest performances from members of KC and the Sunshine Band. Their success in the 1970s saw them touring The United |
1232 | "Peter Bergen"
he worked for CNN Special Assignment as a producer on a wide variety of international and U.S. national stories, including the first televised interview with white supremacist author, William Luther Pierce. From 1985 to 1990 he worked for ABC News in New York. In 1983, he traveled to Pakistan for the first time with two friends to make a documentary about the Afghan refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of their country. The subsequent documentary, ""Refugees of Faith"", was shown on Channel 4 (UK). Bergen has reported on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, ISIS and counterterrorism and homeland security for a variety |
1233 | "Platte Mound M"
Platte Mound M The Platte Mound M is the letter ""M"" written using whitewashed stones on Platte Mound about four miles east of Platteville, Wisconsin. It is the largest letter ""M"" in the world. The letter is high, wide, with legs wide. University of Wisconsin-Platteville students Raymond Medley and Alvin Knoerr worked at a Colorado mine in the summer of 1936, where they saw a large letter ""M"" on the side of Mount Zion in Golden, Colorado that stood for the Colorado School of Mines. They believed that a larger ""M"" should be written on the Platte Mound to represent |
1234 | "United States Pirate Party"
despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."") in order to highlight the timelessness, urgency, and consensual agreement on their positions on free culture. Prior to 2012, the Chairperson of the party was elected every July by a membership vote, as established in the party constitution. After the 2012 formation of the PNC, the role's name was changed to Captain. United States Pirate Party The United States Pirate Party (USPP) is an American political party founded in 2006 by Brent Allison and Alex English. The party's platform is aligned with the global Pirate movement, and supports reform of copyright laws to |
1235 | "Des Newton (model maker)"
Des Newton (model maker) Dennis (Des) Newton (10 May 1942- 30 January 2009), was a noted maker of model ships in bottles, holding the world record for the smallest whisky bottle in which two ships were inserted. Newton appeared on Blue Peter, placing a Blue Peter badge in a bottle. Newton, born in Barrow-in-Furness when the town was still Lancashire, England grew up with boats and eventually became a welder in the towns shipyards. He said that because he was small, he was always the one ""picked out to weld the inside of the rudders and masts and other nasty |
1236 | "Platte Mound M"
the school's Tech building. The illuminated letter was visible from 28 miles away. Before 1940, the letter was lit only for homecoming. After World War II, the tradition changed to include lighting the letter on the evening of the spring Miner's Ball. The letter was neglected during World War II when few men were available. Female students noticed the general disrepair of the letter, which led to a custom of cleaning the letter in the fall and whitewashing it in April on the Thursday before the Miner's Ball. ""Life magazine"" reporter Francis Miller attended the April 29, 1949 lighting, where |
1237 | "Appadurai Muttulingam"
Tamil newspaper in 1961. This story was the title story in his first collection of short stories, ""Akka"" (""Sister""), published in 1964. After this early success, Muttulingam did not publish any stories for the next twenty years. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1965. He left Sri Lanka in 1972, and spent the next eighteen years working in various countries in Africa and Asia, including assignments with the World Bank and the United Nations. He began writing again in 1995, and in the next three years published three collections, all of which were critically acclaimed. The first of these |
1238 | "Platte Mound M"
engineering department closed in the 1990s. As of 2008, the Society of Automotive Engineers student organization at UW-Platteville performs all annual maintenance, including brush and tree removal in fall, lighting it for Homecoming in fall with fiberboard wicks in coffee cans of kerosene, and whitewashing it in spring. Platte Mound M The Platte Mound M is the letter ""M"" written using whitewashed stones on Platte Mound about four miles east of Platteville, Wisconsin. It is the largest letter ""M"" in the world. The letter is high, wide, with legs wide. University of Wisconsin-Platteville students Raymond Medley and Alvin Knoerr worked |
1239 | "Appadurai Muttulingam"
stories, a collection of essays, and has edited a volume of Tamil translations of contemporary North American writing. Muttulingam currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with his wife Kamalaranjini. He is actively involved in The Tamil Literary Garden, a Toronto-based charitable organization dedicated to the international promotion of Tamil literature. Muttulingam's stories are noted for their understatement, reserve and imagery, and focus on moments of small transformation. His stories do not attempt to directly build suspense or dramatic tension, and are instead grounded in realism, particularly in description and characterisation. Appadurai Muttulingam Appadurai Muttulingam (Tamil அ. முத்துலிங்கம்) (born 19 January |
1240 | LaFaro
the Line Local Act of the Year for 2 years running and had features in Hot Press and Alternative Ulster magazines. They had also played support slots for Ash, The Pogues, Oppenheimer and Fighting With Wire, as well as shows at the SXSW Festival 2007 in Texas. They also contributed the track ""Mr Heskey"", to the ""Oh Yeah Sessions '08"" album a showcase for local Northern Irish music recorded at Belfast's Oh Yeah music centre which was released in April of that year. The band released the 5 track ""EP2"" towards the end of 2008. ""Tupenny Nudger"" was awarded the |
1241 | "Equine coat color"
color have been developed for some colors. Discussion, research, and even controversy continues about some of the details, particularly those surrounding spotting patterns, color sub-shades such as ""sooty"" or ""flaxen"", and markings. Genetically, all horses start out as either chestnut, called ""red"" by geneticists, represented by the absence of the extension gene (""e""); or black based on the presence of the extension gene (""E""). Therefore, red (""ee"") and black (""EE"" or ""Ee"") are the two base colors. The Bay color is expressed when a common genetic modifier, the Agouti gene, works on black. The vast range of all other coat |
1242 | "Equine coat color"
colors are created by additional genes' action upon one of these three coat colors. Statistically, the most commonly seen horse color phenotypes are identified by the following terms: White markings are present at birth and unique to each horse, making them useful in identifying individual animals. Markings usually have pink skin underneath them, though some faint markings may not, and white hairs may extend past the area of underlying pink skin. Though markings that overlie dark skin may appear to change, the underlying skin color and hair growing from pink skin will not. Horses may also be uniquely identified by |
1243 | LaFaro
released in the summer of 2011, with a second single, ""Meat Wagon"" released on 3 September. Herb Magee returned on bass guitar in mid-2012. LaFaro headlined a stage at Eurosonic 2012 and completed an extensive European tour in the winter of 2012 visiting 10 countries in their 32 date tour. They also accompanied Therapy? on the Irish leg of their 2013 tour. Most recently Dave Magee has been playing guitar with Little Matador whilst Dave, Herb Magee and Alan Lynn have been working with Cahir O'Doherty under the name GOONS. Herb has also been releasing electronic music under the name |
1244 | "Equine coat color"
for recording with the color breed registry. The best-known color breed registries are for buckskins, palominos, and pintos. Some ""true"" breeds also have color that usually breeds on as well as distinctive physical characteristics and a limited stud book. These horses are true breeds that are said to have a ""color preference"". They are not color breeds, and include the Friesian horse (must be uniformly black for mainstream registration), the Appaloosa (Leopard or other Leopard complex patterns) and the American Paint Horse. In some breeds, though not all, offspring of animals registered in these stud books can also be registered, |
1245 | "Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert"
Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert Down in the Valley: Barn Aid Benefit Concert is the title of a live album by folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown with Charlie Parr and Jeff White & The Front Porch. The Barn Aid benefit's aim was the restoration of the barn at Bubbling Springs Farm. There was no plan to make a recording, but when a fan tape of the concert was found, Brown approved it and gave permission for the release. Brown's label, Red House Records was instrumental in the production, editing and release. Only one pressing was made. All songs |
1246 | "Troy Alves"
Troy Alves Troy Alves (born September 26, 1966) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. Initially a high school and later a college baseball star, Troy always had a love for weight training that dated back to his sophomore year of high school. While on a full scholarship at an Glendale Community college for baseball, Alves injured himself while weight training. His career in baseball was seriously jeopardized, prompting Alves to quit college and join the United States Airforce. Having a child at the time was one of the major reasons for doing so. After being told he should pursue bodybuilding, |
1247 | "Mario Titi"
Mario Titi Mario Titi is a painter of the Roman and Castelli Romani artistic scene of the 20th century; his works are shown in churches and museums of the Lazio, and all over the world. The artist frequented from a young age the academy of Belle Arti of Rome, sticking to the futurist movement. He was a follower of Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni) and then of Pippo Rizzo. In the Vernissage of Rome, Naples and Frascati he exposed for the first time works with a new technique, the ""Drip painting"" exploited by Jackson Pollock, soon becoming the Italian leader of the |
1248 | "Mario Titi"
style. He continued with the Vernissage in Paris, New York, Munich, Milan, Madrid and other cities of the world. In the 1970s he produced 120 ""castings"" inspired by the epic poem The ""Divine Comedy"". Mario Titi Mario Titi is a painter of the Roman and Castelli Romani artistic scene of the 20th century; his works are shown in churches and museums of the Lazio, and all over the world. The artist frequented from a young age the academy of Belle Arti of Rome, sticking to the futurist movement. He was a follower of Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni) and then of Pippo |
1249 | "I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)"
love songs project along with ""Least You Can Do"", but both tracks were released in 2002 for ""Testify"". I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try) ""I Can't Stop Loving You (Though I Try)"" is a song written by Billy Nicholls and first released by Leo Sayer from his 1978 self-titled album on the Chrysalis label. It reached #6 on the UK singles chart and was classified silver. An American southern rock group, the Outlaws, recorded ""I Can't Stop Loving You"" on their 1980 release ""Ghost Riders"". In 2002, Phil Collins also covered the song, as ""Can't Stop Loving You"". |
1250 | "FC Zimbru Chișinău"
FC Zimbru Chișinău Fotbal Club Zimbru Chișinău, commonly known as Zimbru Chișinău, or simply as Zimbru, is a Moldovan football club based in Chișinău, currently playing in the Moldovan National Division. Founded in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947, Zimbru entered the Soviet Top League in 1956 and participated in 11 seasons before their last relegation in 1983. After the independence of Moldova in 1991, the team established itself as an early force in the country, winning all but one of the first nine national championships. However – primarily as a result of Sheriff Tiraspol's ascent – they have |
1251 | "Delayed pressure urticaria"
of DPU Delayed pressure urticaria Delayed pressure urticaria is known as one of the more painful subsets of physical urticaria due to formed hives being deep-seated and appearing after 4–6 hours. Due to the delayed appearance of wheals, plausible causes are hard to establish; the natural course and/or clinical pattern is variable and inconclusive. It was noted that although antihistamines and anti-inflammatory drugs such as, colchicine, sulphasalazine, dapsone, and topical steroid are advocated for in the treatment of DPU, most if not all are unsatisfactory in relieving symptoms. Even a second generation antihistamine, ketotifen, was unable to efficiently and satisfactorily |
1252 | "FC Zimbru Chișinău"
well as spending time in the Soviet Top League and First League. In total, Zimbru spent 11 seasons in the Top League between 1956 and 1983. Zimbru had their biggest success in 1956 when they finished in 6th place out of 12 in the Soviet Top League and in 1963 when they reached the quarter-finals of the Soviet Cup. Zimbru's fortunes changed after the fall of the USSR and the establishment of the Republic of Moldova. The club won all five of the initial seasons of the Moldovan National Division (1992–96), and apart from finishing as runners-up to Chișinău rivals |
1253 | "FC Zimbru Chișinău"
Constructorul Chișinău in 1996–97, won eight of the first nine championships. Zimbru have also won the Moldovan Cup six times, including a double in 1997–98 and the Moldovan Super Cup once. Zimbru's biggest rivalry is with Sheriff Tiraspol, who in the last eighteen years have won sixteen championships. Since its foundation, Zimbru's colours always was yellow and green. Throughout history, Zimbru Chișinău had many logos. Traditional colours were always present on club crests. FC Zimbru's home ground is Zimbru Stadium, a football-specific stadium in Botanica sector of Chișinău. It was opened in 2006. The stadium has a natural grass playing |
1254 | "FC Zimbru Chișinău"
surface, and its capacity is 10,400. In the 1990s (the first decade of Moldova's independence), Zimbru's rival was the other team from Chișinău, Constructorul Chișinău. Then Contructorul was dissolved. In 1997, a new team was founded in Tiraspol, Sheriff Tiraspol. In a few years, Sheriff was promoted to the first league and became a force in Moldovan football. Considering the strength of team and the tensions between Moldovans and separatist Transnistrians, the match between Zimbru and Sheriff became a derby, the most important match in country. Thus, it has been named ""Derby of Moldova"", being labelled even as ""Moldovan ""El |
1255 | "FC Zimbru Chișinău"
Clasico"""" (). Another rivalry was established in the mid 2000s when Dacia Chișinău, another team from Chișinău, became one of Moldova's top teams. The match between them is known as ""The Derby of the capital"" (). Zimbru players who received the award Moldovan Footballer of the Year: FC Zimbru Chișinău Fotbal Club Zimbru Chișinău, commonly known as Zimbru Chișinău, or simply as Zimbru, is a Moldovan football club based in Chișinău, currently playing in the Moldovan National Division. Founded in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947, Zimbru entered the Soviet Top League in 1956 and participated in 11 seasons |
1256 | Nagore
Nagore Nagore is a town in the Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located approximately 12 km south of Karaikal and 5 km north of Nagapattinam. Tiruvarur, Mayiladuthurai, are nearby towns. It has a population of approximately 45,000. The prime attraction is the renowned Nagore Dargah, a revered place of all faiths. A five centuries old Islamic shrine, Nagore Dargah attracts millions of pilgrims irrespective of caste, creed or religion. Nagapattinam and Nagore were incorporated as a single municipality in 1866 CE. This is a small town along the shore of the Bay of Bengal. The festival season in |
1257 | Nagore
Nagore occurs during the month of May, typically, but the festival dates will change, as they are based on the lunar calendar. The popular Kandhuri festival is celebrated with festivities and pomp and show. A few temples exist, too. This shows the peaceful coexistence of Muslims and other faiths. In Tamil Nadu Nagore Dargah is not only the Islamic Religious Centre but also Common Religious Gathering Point by which many Hundreds of Thousands of devotees attend to get the peerless benevolence. Whereby Hindus, Christians, Muslims,” all Triple Gems” of any other religious devotees can attend without any obstacles which “is |
1258 | "Code (video game)"
Code (video game) Code, known as Base 10 in North America and Decode in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. The game involves players lining up numbers so that they total up to 10. However, as the numbers resemble those from an LCD display, players can flip around numbers (for example, a 2 can be reversed to become a 5) to complete their objective. The options featured include a sprint game involving 2 to 10 different digits, a puzzle mode and an endless mode. |
1259 | "Code (video game)"
There is even a multi-player option where two players can go head to head with the other player acquiring Base 10 through DS Download on any Nintendo DS console. ""Code"" was announced for the DSiWare service on October 2, 2008 at a Nintendo conference alongside the reveal of the service. It was eventually released on December 24, 2008 on the DSiWare's launch. It was developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo. ""Code"" received a 77/100 on Metacritic based on 9 reviews, indicating ""generally favorable"" reviews. PC World called ""Code"" the ""bar none best math game ever."" However the game |
1260 | "Code (video game)"
has been criticized for its lack of a left-handed option. Code (video game) Code, known as Base 10 in North America and Decode in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. The game involves players lining up numbers so that they total up to 10. However, as the numbers resemble those from an LCD display, players can flip around numbers (for example, a 2 can be reversed to become a 5) to complete their objective. The options featured include a sprint game involving 2 to |
1261 | "Sue Duncan Children's Center"
Sue Duncan Children's Center The Sue Duncan Children's Center is a non-profit organization on the South Side of Chicago founded in 1961 by Susan Duncan, mother of former Secretary of Education under President Barack Obama's administration, Arne Duncan. The center runs afterschool and summer programs to provide children of all ages free tutoring and academic support as well as access to extracurricular activities such as basketball and art. The center currently serves approximately 80 students. Duncan started the center in 1961 after a friend at the Kenwood United Church of Christ asked her to teach Bible school to nine girls, |
1262 | "One (Ami Suzuki song)"
is cited as an example of her numerous ""reinventions"". For additional promotion, the song was featured on Suzuki's One Promotional Tour, and at her 29th birthday event. ""One"" was written, produced, composed and arranged by Japanese musician and Capsule member Yasutaka Nakata. Nakata was not credited as the single's featuring artist where it was first introduced on Suzuki's double a-side single ""Free Free"" and ""Super Music Maker"" (2007). It is Suzuki's third single to be handled by Nataka, following ""Free Free"" and ""Super Music Maker"". It was selected as the lead single from ""Supreme Show"", and was released on June |
1263 | "One (Ami Suzuki song)"
18, 2008 by Avex Trax. ""One"" is to commemorate her 10th anniversary of her music career, and was released physically on July 2 that same year. The maxi CD of the single contains the original composition and remix of ""One"", plus the album version and remix of ""A Token of Love"". The DVD format of the single includes the radio edit music video of ""One"". The CD cover sleeve has Suzuki laying down on a mirror, with several strips of neon light behind her. The DVD cover sleeve features Suzuki kneeling down in front of a wall of neon lights. |
1264 | "Sue Duncan Children's Center"
Our dinnertime conversations may be a little bit different than other families. And we tried to figure out what to do and really decided that you can't -- you can't run. And once you start running, you know, you'll be chancing your shadow eventually. So we showed up the next day and luckily he didn't."" Duncan's three children, Arne, Sarah and Owen, spent much of their childhoods at the center. Other alumni of the center include Oscar nominee Michael Clarke Duncan, and top IBM engineer Kerrie Holley. The children's center provides academic help to primarily low-income African American children living |
1265 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
second Navy Cross for his actions during the occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s. After a decade of stateside duty, he served in the Pacific Theater of World War II. During this conflict, he was awarded the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star. He retired in 1948, after a thirty-four-year career, and was promoted in retirement to brigadier general. Herman Henry Hanneken was born on June 23, 1893, in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Henrick Preparatory School in that city. He enlisted in the Marine Corps as a private in July 1914, and served |
1266 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
the following five years in the enlisted ranks, rising to the rank of sergeant. The United States invaded Haiti in 1915 and occupied the country for 19 years. In the years following the initial invasion, rebel forces under Charlemagne Péralte conducted an armed resistance to the occupation. On the night of October 31–November 1, 1919, Hanneken assassinated the resistance leader, Péralte. Hanneken was disguised and led into the rebels camp in Northern Haiti by Jean-Baptiste Conze, one of Péralte's officers who betrayed the Haitian leader. In the short skirmish that ensued, Hanneken killed Péralte and about 1,200 of his followers |
1267 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
were killed, captured, or dispersed. Hanneken subsequently circulated a photograph of Péralte's half-naked body tied to a door. However, the attempt to intimidate backfired and instead evoked sympathy for Péralte. Hanneken was awarded the Medal of Honor for ""extraordinary heroism"" and ""conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in actual conflict with the enemy"" and, in December 1919, commissioned as a second lieutenant. In another raid just five months after the death of Charlemagne, he shot and killed Osiris Joseph, another Haitian rebel leader who succeeded Charlemagne. He was awarded the Navy Cross for this act. Upon appointment as a second lieutenant he |
1268 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
was assigned to train the Haitian police force, the Gendarmerie. [This may be an error: It is reported that it was Marine Major Smedley Butler, who also won a Medal of Honor for his exploits, who went on to serve as commanding officer of the Haitian Gendarmerie].He was ordered to return to the United States in April 1920, and following his arrival at the Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to a special course at the Marine Corps Schools. As a member of the 6th Regiment, First Lieutenant Hanneken sailed for Brazil to participate in the Brazilian Exposition. The |
1269 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
unit returned to Quantico in the latter part of 1922, and several months later, he was transferred to the Marine Detachment, , where he assumed duties as commanding officer. In January 1925, he was transferred to the Marine Barracks, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, and in April 1927, was detached to the Marine Barracks at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Again ordered to foreign shore duty in December 1928, he arrived in Corinto, Nicaragua in January of the following year. Upon his arrival in Nicaragua he was assigned to duty with the 2nd Brigade of Marines. The United States had |
1270 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
invaded this Central American country in 1912 and had been occupying it since. A month after his arrival Hanneken captured another leader of the rebel forces resisting the invasion by the United States. He was awarded his second Navy Cross for ""bringing in"" General José María Jirón Ruano, the Guatemalan Chief of Staff of the Nicaraguan General Augusto César Sandino. In July 1930, Hanneken returned to Quantico to attend the Company Officers' Course at the Marine Corps Schools. Upon graduation in January of the next year, he was transferred to the Marine Corps Base at San Diego, California, and later |
1271 | "Herman H. Hanneken"
to the Naval Base, at San Pedro, California. His next assignment found him at the Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California, in August 1936, where during his tour of duty he was appointed a major. Major Hanneken was ordered to Quantico in June 1938, and two months later reported for a course of instruction at that base in the Senior Course, Marine Corps Schools. From June 1939 to December 1940, he was Commanding Officer, Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham, Massachusetts. He was next ordered to New York to assume command of the Marine Detachment aboard the with additional duties as |
1272 | "One (Ami Suzuki song)"
and noted that her mini hiatus in 2007 ""changed a lot"" of her future music releases. Despite Hiraga feeling that Suzuki didn't provide enough ""spirit"" for the track and compared it to Perfume's work as well, he commended the club composition and production. An editorial review on the Japanese Amazon.com site complimented the composition of the track, labelling it ""sparkling up-tempo tune"". A staff reviewer from ""CD Journal"" was positive towards the song's composition and Nakata's production, labelling it a ""sparkly"" and ""glistening"" dance tune. In Japan, ""One"" debuted at number 17 on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart, selling over |
1273 | "Aquia (video game)"
Aquia (video game) Aquia, known as Aquite in Europe and Aquario in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. It was released at the launch of the Nintendo DSi and DSiWare service on April 5, 2009 in North America. The game requires players to line up blocks in rows of 3 or more in order to allow your diver to delve deeper into the ocean. This occurs as you move blocks of various sizes (1 x 2, 2 x 1, or 2 x 2) horizontally |
1274 | "Aquia (video game)"
into a column of coloured blocks. As you move blocks in from one side, you push blocks out of the other side. You can move these blocks up and down the column, as well as rotating their colours configuration, in order to create matches of coloured blocks within the column. As the diver progresses he'll slowly begin to lose his air supply. The player has to refill the diver's air-supply by clearing rows of blocks quicker or finding and clearing a row of 3 special blocks that will appear randomly as the game progresses. Darkness falls from the top of |
1275 | "One (Ami Suzuki song)"
and yellow in the background, and has several close-up, body, and atmospheric shots of the room and Suzuki. The second verse has five different shots of Suzuki in a pink dress, singing the song in a colorized 3D effect. Several club lights are overlapped with another shot of Suzuki dancing. The second chorus features several clones of Suzuki in the pink dress, standing in the shape of the song's title ""One""; this scene uses the 3D effect. The final scenes finish with Suzuki in the room, as the lights turn off. An editor from Channel-Ai blog was positive towards the |
1276 | "Aquia (video game)"
top screen. ""AQUARIO"" was announced for the DSiWare service on October 2, 2008 at a Nintendo conference alongside the reveal of the service. It was eventually released on December 24, 2008 on the DSiWare's launch. It was announced for an English release in both North America and Europe alongside several other DSiWare games on February 18, 2009. It was developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo. ""Aquia"" received mixed to positive reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 70/100 based on 16 reviews, indicating ""mixed or average reviews."" On GameRankings, the game holds |
1277 | "New Zealand Constitution Act 1852"
1852. The New Zealand Company, which was established in 1839, proposed that New Zealand should have representative institutions, and this was consistent with the findings of the Durham Report, which was commissioned during 1838 following minor rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada. The first settlement of the company, Wellington, briefly had its own elected council during 1840, which dissolved itself on the instruction of Lieutenant Governor William Hobson. The first New Zealand Constitution Act was passed in 1846, though Governor George Grey was opposed to its proposed division of the country into European and Māori districts. As a result, almost |
1278 | Tacheback
Tacheback Tacheback was the name of a UK charitable event that ran each November from 2003 to 2010. During that month each year, thousands of men would grow a sponsored moustache to raise money for the Everyman Campaign, a UK male cancer research charity which funds research in and awareness of male prostate and testicular cancers. The event name is a portmanteau word, being a mix of CashBack and Tache (Moustache). The event culminated with a “Tashon Parade” in London of some of its annual sponsored mustachioed participants. The event was regularly attended by celebrities such as comedian Charlie Higson, |
1279 | "New Zealand Constitution Act 1852"
reserve power of veto such legislation, and the right of the Crown to disallow provincial Acts within two years of their passage was preserved. Parliament was granted the power to make laws for the ""peace, order, and good government of New Zealand"" provided such legislation was not inconsistent with the laws of England. The first provincial elections were held during 1853. The first Parliament under the Act met in Auckland, at the time the capital, in May 1854. This session was concerned primarily with the issue of responsible government, or the ability of the Colonial parliament instead of the Governor |
1280 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
National Center for Computational Sciences The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) is a United States Department of Energy Leadership Computing Facility. The NCCS provides resources for calculation and simulation in fields including astrophysics, materials, and climate research. This research is intended to enhance American competitiveness in industry. The NCCS, founded in 1992 and located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), currently manages a 2.33-petaflop (theoretical peak) Cray XT5 supercomputer named Jaguar for use in open research by academic and corporate researchers. Jaguar was named the world's fastest computer at SC09, a position it held until October 2010. Founded in |
1281 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
1992, the NCCS is a managed activity of the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program of the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). The petaflops Jaguar addresses some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion, and combustion. Annually, 80% of Jaguar's resources are allocated through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, a competitively selected, peer reviewed process open to researchers from universities, industry, government, and non-profit organizations. Through a close, four-year partnership between ORNL and Cray, Jaguar has delivered state-of-the-art computing capability to scientists |
1282 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
and engineers from academia, national laboratories and industry. The XT system has grown in strength through a series of advances since being installed as a 25-teraflop XT3 in 2005. By early 2008 Jaguar was a 263-teraflop Cray XT4 able to solve some of the most challenging problems that could not be solved otherwise. In 2008 Jaguar was expanded with the addition of a 1.4-petaflop Cray XT5. The resulting system has over 224,000 processing cores (as of June 2010) using AMD's Opteron processors connected internally with Cray's Seastar2+ network. The XT4 and XT5 parts of Jaguar are combined into a single |
1283 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
system using an InfiniBand network that links each piece to the Spider file system. Jaguar is one of the most powerful computer systems for science with world-leading performance, more than three times the memory of any other computer (at the time of installation), and world-leading bandwidth to disks and networks. The AMD Opteron processor is a powerful, general purpose processor that uses the X86 instruction set which has a rich set of applications, compilers, and tools. Jaguar has hundreds of applications that have been ported and run on the Cray XT system, many of which have been scaled up to |
1284 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
run on 25,000 to 150,000 cores. From November 2009 until November 2010, Jaguar was the world's most powerful computer, according to TOP500, the semi-annual list of the world's top supercomputers. The mass storage facility at ORNL currently consists of tape and disk storage components, Linux servers, and High Performance Storage System (HPSS) software. As of October 2010 more than 14 petabytes were stored in HPSS in more than 21 million files. Tape storage is provided by robotic tape libraries. The Sun StorageTek SL8500 libraries can each hold up to 10,000 cartridges and together house a total of thirteen 9840 drives |
1285 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
(20 gigabyte cartridges, uncompressed), sixteen 9940B drives (200 gigabyte cartridges, uncompressed), thirty-two T10000A drives (500 gigabyte cartridges, uncompressed), and sixteen T10000B drives (1,000 gigabyte cartridges, uncompressed). The 9840 and 9940A drives read and write uncompressed data at 10 megabytes per second; the 9940B reads and writes at 30 megabytes per second. The beneficial feature of the 9840 tape technology is its fast seek time for small file access; these are the performance drives. The T10000 tape technology provides the ability to store a larger amount of data on each tape cartridge for more voluminous data sets; these are the capacity |
1286 | "Tree house"
recreational tree houses have enjoyed a rise in popularity in countries such as the United States and parts of Europe. This has been due to increased disposable income, better technology for builders, research into safe building practices and an increased interest in environmental issues, particularly sustainable living. This growing popularity is also reflected in a rise of social media channels, websites, and television shows specially dedicated to featuring remarkable tree houses around the world. Increased popularity has, in turn, given rise to demand for businesses covering all building and design work for clients. There are over 30 businesses in Europe |
1287 | "Tree house"
and the USA specializing in the construction of tree houses of various degrees of permanence and sophistication, from children's play structures to fully functioning homes. Popularity of tree house hotels is equally growing, with a number of booking websites offering accommodation in tree houses. Many areas of the world have no specific planning laws for tree houses, so the legal issues can be confusing to both the builder and the local planning departments only. Treehouses can be exempt, partially regulated or fully regulated - depending on the locale. In some cases, tree houses are exempted from standard building regulations, as |
1288 | "Benjamin Brandreth"
with innumberable private dwellings, we draped in mourning. Brandreth's funeral was held at the Trinity Church which could hold only a fraction of the mourners in attendance. Others lined the streets to the Dale Cemetery where he was buried. His body was in a wrought metal and bronze casket hermetically sealed with a full length plate glass top. The procession to the cemetery included carriages for the clergymen and pallbearers, the 16th Battalion brass band, the hearse with a bodyguard of 8 Masonic knights, and carriages for 150 friends and family, stretching out over a mile in length, so that |
1289 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
Science and Technology) is a large-scale venue for data exploration and analysis. EVEREST measures in at an impressive 30 feet long by 8 feet tall. Its main feature is a 27-projector PowerWall with an aggregate pixel count of 35 million pixels. The projectors are arranged in a 9×3 array, each providing 3,500 lumens for a very bright display. Displaying 11,520 by 3,072 pixels, or a total of 35 million pixels, the wall offers a tremendous amount of visual detail. The wall is integrated with the rest of the computing center, creating a high-bandwidth data path between large-scale high-performance computing and |
1290 | "National Center for Computational Sciences"
large-scale data visualization. EVEREST provides a premier data analysis and visualization capability and facility in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. EVEREST is controlled by a 14 node cluster. Each node contains four dual-core AMD Opteron processors. These 14 nodes have nVidia QuadroFX 3000G graphics cards connected to the projectors, providing a very-high-throughput visualization capability. Scientists can make use of the EVEREST facility by contacting any member of the visualization team and booking a time. The visualization lab acts as an experimental facility for development of future visualization capabilities. It also serves as a staging area for technology to |
1291 | "Natural-born-citizen clause"
United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States, under clause 5 (emphasis added): The Twelfth Amendment states, ""No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."" The Fourteenth Amendment does not use the phrase ""natural-born citizen"". It does provide, ""All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."" Under Article One, representatives and senators are required to be U.S. citizens, but there |
1292 | "Mahan-class destroyer"
to 1,500 tons. The class introduced a new steam propulsion system that combined increases in pressure and temperature with a new type of lightweight steam turbine, which proved simpler and more efficient than the ""Mahan""s' predecessors—so much so that it was used on many subsequent wartime US destroyers. All 18 ships saw action in World War II, entirely in the Pacific Theater, which included the Guadalcanal Campaign, and the battles of the Santa Cruz Islands, Leyte Gulf, and Iwo Jima. Their participation in major and secondary campaigns included the bombardment of beachheads, amphibious landings, task force screening, convoy and patrol |
1293 | "Natural-born-citizen clause"
explaining the said recited Clause in the said Act . . . [t]hat all Children born out of the Ligeance of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, or which shall hereafter be born out of such Ligeance, whose Fathers were or shall be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, at the Time of the Birth of such Children respectively ... are hereby declared to be natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatsoever. Another use is in the Plantation Act 1740: Jurist William Blackstone wrote in |
1294 | "Natural-born-citizen clause"
1765 that ""Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England"". Blackstone added that offspring who are not inhabitants may also be natural born subjects: In 1775, however, Blackstone reversed his opinion and explained that the children ""are now deemed to be natural-born subjects"" rather than ""are now natural-born subjects."" Similarly, Francis Plowden initially explained that an early English statute made foreign-born children of English parents ""in fact and law . . . true native subjects"" and that the eighteenth-century British statutes made persons natural-born subjects by statute law just as others were natural-born |
1295 | "Natural-born-citizen clause"
subjects by the common law. However, after further consideration he also reversed his opinion and concluded in 1785 that the statutes did not make the children natural born subjects—rather, there remained a ""relict of alienage in them."" Prior to Blackstone, Edward Coke offered a narrower opinion in ""Calvin's Case"". According to Coke: ""[I]f any of the King's ambassadors in foreign nations, have children there of their wives, being English women, by the common laws of England they are natural-born subjects, and yet they are born out-of the King's dominions."" The term ""natural born"" has often been used synonymously with ""native |
1296 | "Mahan-class destroyer"
over the ""Farragut""s. The ""Mahan""s typically had a tripod foremast with a pole mainmast. To improve the anti-aircraft field of fire, their tripod foremast was constructed without nautical rigging. In silhouette, they were similar to the larger s that immediately preceded them. The ""Mahan""s were fitted with the first emergency generators, which replaced the storage batteries of earlier classes. Gun crew shelters were built for the superimposed weapons, one shelter before the bridge and one atop the shelter deck aft. The ""Mahan""s displaced at standard load and at deep load. The overall length of the class was , the beam |
1297 | "Mahan-class destroyer"
was , and the draft . They were powered by General Electric geared steam turbines, driving two shafts that developed a total of for a maximum speed of . Four Babcock & Wilcox or four Foster Wheeler water-tube boilers generated the superheated steam needed for the turbines. The ""Mahan""s carried a maximum of of fuel oil, with a range of at . Their peacetime complement was 158 officers and enlisted men. The wartime complement increased to approximately 250 officers and enlisted men. The ""Mahan""s' propulsion plant was considerably improved over that of the ""Farragut""s. The steam pressure was raised from |
1298 | "Natural-born-citizen clause"
shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States."" On July 25, 1787, John Jay wrote to George Washington, presiding officer of the Convention: Permit me to hint, whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government, and to declare expressly that the Command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on, any but |
1299 | "Mahan-class destroyer"
the ""Mahan""s' ability to carry 12 torpedo tubes instead of eight with only 150 tons of extra displacement. The main turbines were manufactured by the General Electric Company and were the impulse-type, also called the Curtis turbines. Each main turbine was divided into a high-pressure (HP) and a low-pressure (LP) turbine, which fed into a common reduction gear and drove a shaft, in a similar manner to the machinery illustrated at the following reference note. The steam from the boilers was supplied to the HP turbine, which exhausted to the LP turbine, in turn exhausted to the condenser. The cruising |
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