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3000 | "New Zealand Midland Railway Company"
and a London management remote from the realities of railway construction in New Zealand it had little chance of success. The company commenced construction from Brunner, the Nelson Section heading up the Grey Valley towards Reefton while the Christchurch line diverged from it at S... |
3001 | "New Zealand Midland Railway Company"
ceased on the West Coast in late 1894. On the Springfield section only the Kowai bridges and 4.5 miles to track to Otarama were usable as a railway. The foundations for Pattersons Creek viaduct were in place but the steel superstructure still had to be manufactured and erected. So ... |
3002 | "Sally Bedell Smith"
Rowbotham, a brigadier general and businessman. She grew up in the nearby town of St. Davids. She graduated from Radnor High School in 1966, and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in November 2008. She received her B.A. from Wheaton College and her M.S. from Columbia University Graduate Sc... |
3003 | "Sally Bedell Smith"
specializing in television. In 1981, Smith published ""Up The Tube: Prime-time TV and the Silverman Years"", an inside look at the American television industry, its ratings wars of the 1970s, and the meteoric career of Fred Silverman, who famously worked as an executive at all of the Big Three TV n... |
3004 | "Sally Bedell Smith"
New York Times Book Review"", Christopher Buckley wrote, ""[Smith's] superb and thorough reporting uncovered all the unpleasantness along with the greatness."" In 1996, Smith published ""Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman."" Reviewing the book for ""The New York Observer,"" Alex... |
3005 | "Sally Bedell Smith"
""Vanity Fair"" as contributing editor, where she remains as of August 2016. For the magazine, she has written pieces on such high-profile figures as Jimmy Goldsmith and Gianni Agnelli. Her 1999 biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, ""Diana in Search of Herself"" was included in the best seller li... |
3006 | "Sally Bedell Smith"
front-page review for ""The Los Angeles Times"", Gary Indiana said it was, ""A gracefully written tell-all that really does tell a story worth reading... Her detailed book is hardly prurient, but it does clock -- and I do mean ""clock"" -- JFK's infidelities, which emerge here in a somewhat differe... |
3007 | "Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957"
Calcedonio Di Pisa, Cesare Manzella and Tommaso Buscetta. There are no first-hand accounts of the meeting, except for the version of Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta, who denied a summit ever took place at all. According to Buscetta, Bonanno did stay at the Grand Hotel des Pal... |
3008 | "Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957"
Bonanno was fêted as the guest of honour by his old friend Lucky Luciano. Among the other guests were Bonanno’s underboss Carmine Galante, the brothers Salvatore and Angelo La Barbera, Salvatore ""Little Bird"" Greco, Gaetano Badalamenti, Gioacchino Pennino, Cesare Manzella, ... |
3009 | "Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957"
meetings. They observed the gatherings. However, the report was buried in some filing cabinet in Palermo. A copy was sent to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Washington. Only eight years later the report was used to indict the participants and some of their associates in Pa... |
3010 | "Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957"
and Joe Adonis. The Court of Palermo dismissed the charges in June 1968 because of lack of evidence. What can be said about the events in October 1957 in Palermo is that the gatherings reforged the links between the most Sicilian of the American Five Families, the Bonanno Cri... |
3011 | "Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957"
Mafia and ""the"" American Cosa Nostra. The important result of 1957 Palermo gatherings was that the Sicilian Mafia composed its first Sicilian Mafia Commission and appointed ""Little Bird"" Greco as its first ""primus inter pares"". Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957 ... |
3012 | "Parc Jean-Drapeau"
Parc Jean-Drapeau Parc Jean-Drapeau (formerly called Parc des Îles) is situated to the east of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the Saint Lawrence River. It comprises two islands, Saint Helen's Island and the artificial island Notre Dame Island. The islands were the site of the Expo 67 World's ... |
3013 | "Parc Jean-Drapeau"
1611, who named it in honour of his wife, Hélène de Champlain, née Boullé. It also bears the name of Helena, mother of Roman emperor Constantine the Great. The island belonged to the family of Le Moyne de Longueuil from 1665 until 1818, when it was sold to the British government. The British built a... |
3014 | "Parc Jean-Drapeau"
To prepare for this role, Mayor Jean Drapeau expanded Saint Helen's Island and consolidated it with several neighboring islands (including Round Island) and created Notre Dame Island using the fill excavated during the construction of the Montreal Metro in the early 1960s. 28 million tons of fill we... |
3015 | "Germantown High School (Philadelphia)"
and Germantown were previously athletic rivals, but after 2013 American football team players of Germantown High joined King's team. Feeder middle schools into Germantown included Roosevelt Middle School. K-8 feeder schools into Germantown included Charles W. Henry School, Henry ... |
3016 | "Rolvsøy"
Rolvsøy Rolvsøy is a village, an island, and a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It was created by a split from Tune on 1 January 1911. At that time Rolvsøy had a population of 2,381. On 1 January 1994 Rolvsøy was incorporated into the municipality of Fredrikstad, the neighboring municipality to ... |
3017 | "Rolvsøy"
a boat burial mound on Rolvsøy which was a part of Tune at that time. The Norse form of the name was (probably) ""*Rolfsøy"". The first element is then the genitive case of the male name ""Rolfr"", the last element is 'øy' meaning 'island'. Rolvsøy has been and is still under heavy development, especially the... |
3018 | "Rolvsøy"
Rolvsøy Rolvsøy is a village, an island, and a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It was created by a split from Tune on 1 January 1911. At that time Rolvsøy had a population of 2,381. On 1 January 1994 Rolvsøy was incorporated into the municipality of Fredrikstad, the neighboring municipality to ... |
3019 | "Parc Jean-Drapeau"
halls, and is the site of the studio of Radio-Classique Montréal. The former Tunisian and Jamaican pavilions are also in use, the former for bike rentals while the latter is used principally for receptions. A considerable portion of Ile Notre Dame was redeveloped into an intricate and elaborate flow... |
3020 | "Parc Jean-Drapeau"
was added in winter 2009. Parc Jean-Drapeau Parc Jean-Drapeau (formerly called Parc des Îles) is situated to the east of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the Saint Lawrence River. It comprises two islands, Saint Helen's Island and the artificial island Notre Dame Island. The islands were the si... |
3021 | "Gökhan Zan"
of the 2010–11 Süper Lig season which came in the first half as the game ended in a 1–1 draw against Kayserispor. Zan played 12 matches on the 2011–12 Süper Lig season and scored 2 goals, one against Eskişehirspor in 2–0 win and the other in a 4–0 win against Ankaragücü. He was part of Galatasaray's champ... |
3022 | "1940 Detroit Tigers season"
gawky stringbean"" — Geiebell was 6'2½"" (189 cm) and 172 pounds (78 kg) —who ""looked like a sacrificial lamb as he ambled out to the mound."" But, as ""Time"" reported after the game, Giebell was ""no lamb"" that day. Instead, ""[w]ith cunning change of pace and the control of an oldtimer... |
3023 | "1940 Detroit Tigers season"
history. ""Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in"" ""Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in"" ""Note: pitchers' batting statistics not... |
3024 | "1940 Detroit Tigers season"
Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"" ""Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games Finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"" The 1940 World Series featured the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds, with the Tigers losing in 7 games. In Game 1, the Tig... |
3025 | "1940 Detroit Tigers season"
from South Carolina, died in a Cincinnati hotel room the day after watching his son win Game 1. In Game 2, Bucky Walters gave the NL its first World Series game victory, 5–3, since Carl Hubbell beat the Yankees in 1937. Jimmy Ripple hit a two-run home run in the 3rd inning, and Walters gave... |
3026 | "Waddill Catchings"
of over $250 million. By 1931 he had nearly bankrupted his employer, Goldman Sachs, through his formation of the Goldman Sachs Trading Company and its floating of the Shenandoah & Blue Ridge investment trusts, controlled by Harrison Williams (America's first billionaire). Catchings was a director of... |
3027 | "1940 Detroit Tigers season"
= Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts"" 1940 Major League Baseball All-Star Game The following members of the 1934 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001: 1940 Detroit Tigers seas... |
3028 | "Medary, South Dakota"
Medary, South Dakota Medary is an unincorporated community in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1857 by the Dakota Land Company, it was one of the first towns in South Dakota. It is not tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau. The earliest signs of human activity found in the ar... |
3029 | Torsnes
Torsnes Torsnes is a former municipality in Østfold county, Norway. It is the site of Torsnes Church (""Torsnes kirke""). Torsnes was created by a split from Borge on 1 January 1910. At that time Torsnes had a population of 1,538. On 1 January 1964, Gansrød and Ulfeng, with 30 inhabitants, were incorporated int... |
3030 | "Medary, South Dakota"
when 10 Norwegian settlers traveled from the east and resettled Medary at a location just north of the old townsite. On July 3, 1871, Brookings County was organized in Martin Trygstad's cabin in Medary. The line originally extended to about 2 miles south of Flandreau. The county lines were redraw... |
3031 | "Medary, South Dakota"
county seat of Brookings County for a total 8 years, from 1871 to 1879. Medary and the nearby towns of Oakwood and Fountain each hoped that the incoming railroad would decide to go through their town, but they were all bypassed. Instead, the businessmen of Medary and Fountain collaborated and dec... |
3032 | "Medary, South Dakota"
was built on the old site of Medary to commemorate the town's existence at the old site. Medary is located in Brookings County, South Dakota, United States, about 4.5 miles south of Brookings. Its coordinates are . The Big Sioux River is located nearby. http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/census/1860_... |
3033 | "Neil Ross (footballer)"
Neil Ross (footballer) Neil Ross (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Northern Premier League Division One North side Harrogate Railway Athletic. Born in West Bromwich, Ross began his career as a trainee at Leeds United in 1999 but made no appea... |
3034 | "Neil Ross (footballer)"
was allowed to go to Conference National side Northwich Victoria on a one-month loan in September 2003 to get match practice. He made 14 appearances for Macclesfield Town without scoring, but did not form part of manager Brian Horton's plans for the 2004–05 season and was placed on the transfer... |
3035 | "Neil Ross (footballer)"
Ilkeston Town, and Buxton before returning to Halifax Town, now playing in the Northern Premier League Division One North, in July 2008. Neil Ross (footballer) Neil Ross (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Northern Premier League Division One N... |
3036 | "Satyrus the Peripatetic"
Satyrus the Peripatetic Satyrus () of Callatis was a distinguished peripatetic philosopher and historian, whose biographies (""Lives"") of famous people are frequently referred to by Diogenes Laërtius and Athenaeus. He came from Callatis Pontica, as we learn from a Herculaneum papyrus. He live... |
3037 | "Satyrus the Peripatetic"
orators (Demosthenes), poets (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), and philosophers (Bias of Priene, Chilon of Sparta, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Zeno of Elea, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Diogenes, Anaxarchus, Stilpo). He also wrote on the population of Alexandria, and a work ""On Characters"" (). Fragmen... |
3038 | Glemmen
named after the old farm Glemmen (Norse ""Glymheimar""), since the first church was built on its ground. The first element is probably the old name of a brook, the last element is the plural form of ""heimr"" 'home, homestead, farm'. The name of the (supposed) brook is derived from the verb ""glymja"" 'rumble, ... |
3039 | "Igbobi College"
Igbobi College Igbobi College is a college established by the Methodist and Anglican Churches in 1932, in the Yaba suburb of Lagos, Lagos State, South-western Nigeria. It is still on its original site and most of the original buildings are intact. It is one of the oldest colleges in Nigeria, and has be... |
3040 | "Igbobi College"
a follow-up to the 1926 Education Code, which was itself an attempt to revise and improve upon Lugard’s Education Code of 1916. In the relative economic boom of the late 1929s, the government followed up the Education Code with the establishment of a number of colleges around Nigeria. In 1928, the CMS ... |
3041 | WMVO
WMVO 13 WMVO is an AM radio station in Mount Vernon, Ohio operating at 1300 kHz. It also operates on 100.9fm (a translator signal) at the same landmark site: ""Radio Hill"" (at the intersection of Coshocton Avenue and Upper Gilchrist Road). The station is a full-service oldies station that also features assorted t... |
3042 | "Igbobi College"
etc. It was a novel concept for secondary education in Lagos. Hence the search for a plot that used to be part of the kola plantations of the family of Madam Tinubu. It was from this that it derived its name, “Igbobi” College. The founding fathers asked staff and students from the CMS Grammar School an... |
3043 | "Igbobi College"
95 day students in all, averaging 25 in class, such that everyone, staff and students, knew everyone else. The selection was based on academic merit, discipline and good behaviour. There were no discrimination on grounds of religion such that some of the students came from prominent Lagos Muslim famili... |
3044 | WMVO
block during the morning and midday hours up to the present day. Prior to February 13, 2010, WMVO was an affiliate of ABC Radio/Citadel Media's Timeless satellite channel, which it carried during non-local programming. After that format's shutdown by Citadel, WMVO switched to a relay of The True Oldies Channel. WM... |
3045 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
institution of administrative organization. In 1697, Saint-Valier built a palace in Quebec for his clergy and as a place of hospitality. During the same year, he also established a nuns monastery in Trois-Rivières (Catholic Church institutions). Saint-Vallier’... |
3046 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
Île Royale, Louisiana, Illinois, Upper Country and Canada. The inhabitants could be separated in two categories, the Indigenous people and the European settlers. During the office of Saint-Vallier the immigration from France was mostly over; the European colon... |
3047 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
contrary to the Europeans, during the same time lapse their number passed from c. 163 500 to c. 61 500. That loss, mainly in the tribes of Louisiana, was attributed to the diseases brought to the valley of the Mississippi and warfare. The vast number of Aborig... |
3048 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
and to rule the different parishes of the Diocese. They often worked in collaboration with the nuns from different orders like the Congrégation de Notre-Dame or l’Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. The nuns were responsible for some missions along with other tasks, like ed... |
3049 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
be elevated to the rank of bishop. In 1685, Mgr de Laval, Bishop of Quebec, gave his resignation to the King and proposed Saint-Vallier to replace him. His entourage first pushed him to refuse the see, since the Diocese of Quebec was relatively new, poor, far ... |
3050 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
be postponed due to the bad relationship between the Pope Innocent XI and Louis XIV. His first stay in Canada lasted a year and a half. Despite entering with only a title to vouch for him, Saint-Vallier surprised the clergy with his passion and energy. His tri... |
3051 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
too filled with fear to fully appreciate his efforts. The superiors of the seminary later wrote to the Bishop Laval that they believed he wasn't a suitable candidate for the task of governing the Quebec diocese. Laval sided with them and requested that Saint-V... |
3052 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
a manipulative traitor. Later, Saint-Vallier overcame this incident and became anointed as bishop at Saint-Sulpice on January 25, 1688 and allowed his predecessor the opportunity to go back to Canada. However, this would prove to be detrimental for him as upon... |
3053 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
his jurisdiction over his own secular clergy with his seminary."" Autumn of 1688, Bishop Saint-Vallier initiated a turnover of the old system and replaced it with new changes in the organization of the seminary which the latter rejected with backing from the B... |
3054 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
loomed ahead. Attacked on every side and called a tyrant and a jansenist, he decided to seek for arbitration by higher religious authorities, in this case the Archbishop of Paris and the private confessor of the King, who ""both decided in favour of the bishop... |
3055 | "Pilling Figurines"
and adorned themselves. Each one is distinctive in both appearance and gender. The female figurines have breasts, wider hips, and wear aprons while the male figurines wear loincloths (except for one which has a kilt of sorts). They appear to have been made in matching male and female pairs leaving a... |
3056 | "Igbobi College"
While arrangements were being made to put up prefabricated buildings on the site in Kudeti, Ibadan (where Yejide Grammar School is now located), Igbobi College had to pack up school property in crates while classes were held for six months in a huge building at Abeokuta Street commandeered from the ref... |
3057 | "Igbobi College"
wholly boarding. As in the life of an individual, a period away from “home” was useful in defining the identity of the school as a community or institution independent of the specific locality at Igbobi. The war ended in May and August 1945 and the school resumed back in Lagos in February 1946. For a f... |
3058 | "Pilling Figurines"
source of the clay used to make the figurines as being the same and matched trace elements found on the missing figurine to elements on the original 10. Experts compared the techniques used to make the figurines, which also indicated that they were made by the same artist. These results led the team... |
3059 | "Edward Abbott Parry"
Edward Abbott Parry Edward Abbott Parry (1863–1943) was an English judge and dramatist. Parry was born in London, the second son of John Humffreys Parry, a barrister. Parry himself studied at the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1885. He was Judge of Manchester County Court 1894-1911 and... |
3060 | "Edward Abbott Parry"
Past and Present"", co-authored with Sir Alfred Codrington, another member of the Tribunal. Edward Abbott Parry Edward Abbott Parry (1863–1943) was an English judge and dramatist. Parry was born in London, the second son of John Humffreys Parry, a barrister. Parry himself studied at the Middle Tem... |
3061 | "Torkil Nielsen"
Torkil Nielsen Torkil Nielsen (, born 26 January 1964) is a former Faroese football midfielder. He is also one of the Faroe Islands' best chess players. He played most of his career at SÍF Sandavágur and after they merged with MB Miðvágur he played with the club which was a result of the merger, FS Vág... |
3062 | "Torkil Nielsen"
in an August 1988 friendly match against Iceland, the country's first FIFA-recognized match. He scored the very first Faroese goal after FIFA recognition, in a game, which also turned out to be the first ever official victory for the Faroe Islands, winning 1-0 in a friendly over Canada in April 1989. T... |
3063 | "Torkil Nielsen"
18 caps, scoring 2 goals. During and after his football career, Torkil Nielsen plays chess with the club Sandavágs talvfelag. He was a three-time individual champion of the Faroes in 1984, 1986 and 1988; and participated three times in the Chess Olympiad as a member of Faroese chess national team - in ... |
3064 | "Torkil Nielsen"
notable football and chess player. He is a defender for EB/Streymur football club and represented Faroes at U-19 level. He was individual chess champion of the Faroes in 2012, 2015 and 2016. He is rated 2334 at the World Chess Federation as of April 2016. His younger son, Høgni Egilstoft Nielsen, was c... |
3065 | "Torkil Nielsen"
played in a Faroese Chess Championship. Høgni also plays football as a defender for 07 Vestur and also played 10 national matches for the Faroe Islands national football team at U-17 level in 2013. Høgni is rated 2295 at the World Chess Federation as of April 2016. Torkil Nielsen Torkil Nielsen (, born... |
3066 | "Aelius Promotus"
Aelius Promotus Aelius Promotus (Gr. ) was an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose personal history no particulars are known, and whose date is uncertain. He is supposed by Villoison to have lived after the time of Pompey the Great, that is, in the 1st century BC. By others he is considered to be... |
3067 | "Aelius Promotus"
to be found in manuscript in different libraries in Europe. The treatise ""On venomous beasts and poisonous drugs"", attributed to Aelius, was last published in 1995. His main work titled (Latin ""Medicinalium Formularum Collectio""), was first published in its complete extension in 2002 by Daria Cris... |
3068 | "Igbobi College"
included the Major Allen Prize for “excellence of character”, with the entire school voting to determine the winner. The runner up got the Proxime Accesit. Consequently, Igbobi College began to appear in Whittaker’s Almanac in the list of Public Schools. Mr. S. A. Babalola a graduate of Cambridge Unive... |
3069 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
of Succession of Spain, and placed under house arrest. With Saint-Vallier being unable to correctly rule from his custody, the religious dimension of the diocese of Quebec fell into decay. The problem in the eyes of the Bishop and many of the priests was the l... |
3070 | "Igbobi College"
school tried to cope with the rapid expansion. Without waiting for external pressure, the school admitted a second arm of Class I in 1961. In 1962, the government decreed that the policy of proving boarding facilities for all should be discarded and that a minimum of one third should be day students th... |
3071 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
It wasn't until 1709 that the king decided to set the dean of Liège free and in turn the English returned Saint-Vallier. At that time, Saint-Vallier's diocese had deteriorated greatly especially after Bishop Laval's death in 1708. Despite his pleas, the king w... |
3072 | "Igbobi College"
the Board of Governors on which the CMS, the Methodist Mission, and the Ministry of Education were represented. By 1963, the new nationalist government had won the battle to take over control of schools so that they could prosecute their ambitious policies of Universal Primary Education, and making pro... |
3073 | "Milos Stankovic"
an officer, you will have had to make many sacrifices, putting the interests of your Country, the Army and your soldiers before your own. This is very much appreciated and the Army Board wishes formally to express its gratitude for the service you have given and for the excellent contribution you have... |
3074 | "Milos Stankovic"
or 'destroyed career' are not torts in law). These were: unlawful arrest, trespass to property and malfeasance in public office (abuse of power) – a tort that had been heard only ten times previously in civil courts and had failed on seven of those occasions. Although the trial judge, The Honourable M... |
3075 | "Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier"
for he said: ""Forget me, but do not forget my poor"". The Abbot Gosselin who wrote about the Bishop Saint-Vallier in the late 19th century will say of him that: ""especially by his great virtues and the holiness of his life, he is revealed in history with the... |
3076 | "Rockin' All Over the World"
Rockin' All Over the World ""Rockin' All Over the World"" is a rock song written by John Fogerty, formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival. It made its debut on Fogerty's second solo album (see ""John Fogerty"") in 1975. It was also released as a single, spending six weeks in the US top 40,... |
3077 | "Rockin' All Over the World"
arrangement of Fogerty's song for their 1977 album ""Rockin' All Over the World"". During the recording of Status Quo's music video to the song, bassist Alan Lancaster was living in Australia. He had refused to return to the UK for the recording, so he was replaced by a dummy with a bass gu... |
3078 | "Rockin' All Over the World"
when the BBC used it to advertise their TV coverage. Coldplay performed a portion of the song at Live 8, with lead singer Chris Martin singing the chorus during the song ""In My Place"", after much was made of Status Quo's absence from the concert in the British media. Status Quo recorded a... |
3079 | "Rockin' All Over the World"
(outro of ""Si tú te vas"" song). Carl Wilson recorded it on his 1983 album ""Youngblood"", and The Beach Boys themselves added the song to their live act in the mid-'80s. Bruce Springsteen has performed the song a number of times during his famous live shows, and it was the final song play... |
3080 | "Rockin' All Over the World"
song as ""Running All Over the World"" with slightly amended lyrics. It reached #17 in the UK Singles Chart. Another re-recorded version appeared on their album ""Riffs"" in 2003. The song is now a Southend United anthem after they began singing ""Shrimping All Over the World"" after the 20... |
3081 | "Milos Stankovic"
Arizona. Between 2008 and 2014 he suspended his working life to care for his elderly mother until her death in August 2014. He ascribes his transition from a warrior- to a caregiver-centric archetype as the central experience that helped him to understand and cope with the unique psychological demands... |
3082 | "Milos Stankovic"
to a post-caring identity. The smoothness and duration of the transition into each phase is determined by psychological self-knowledge, which he believes plays a vital role in helping untrained family caregivers better understand themselves and their own reactions to the unique and challenging pressur... |
3083 | "Milos Stankovic"
for two-and-a-half years, Stankovic supports the campaign to restrict police bail to durations that are reasonable. Organised and led by Westbourne Communications, the Justice Delayed Justice Denied campaign includes many prominent activists from Parliament, the legal profession, the media and from ci... |
3084 | "Milos Stankovic"
on the Salonika front in 1918 where he was serving as an artillery captain and ADC to Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and she was an ambulance driver with the Scottish Women's Hospitals Ostrovo Unit. After the marriage the family moved to Belgrade where he practised law. They had four children of which... |
3085 | "Milos Stankovic"
and used as the President's private retreat, and still is. In 2007 the Slovenian government attempted to sell the property to Heather Mills, Sir Paul McCartney's former wife, for €430,000. Milos Stankovic's lawyers, Barker-Gillette, immediately informed Ms Mills' lawyers that living descendants of the... |
3086 | "Milos Stankovic"
its rightful owners. In correspondence with the Slovenian government, Stankovic was told that the Slovenian government deemed that the descendants had 'missed the boat' by not applying for return of the property in 1991 during the break up of Yugoslavia and had decided, illegally according to Stankovi... |
3087 | Vestalia
in thanks for the services they provided in the bakeries. The final day (15 June) was Q(uando) S(tercum) D(elatum) F(as) [""when dung may be removed lawfully""] - the ""penus Vestae"" was solemnly closed; the ""Flaminica Dialis"" observed mourning, and the temple was subjected to a purification called ""sterco... |
3088 | "Luis Advis"
the amalgamation of the European classical music traditions with Latin American musical expressions is owed). Although Advis recognized his appreciation of traditional classical music, he felt the need to revitalize and develop popular and folk music through works such as cantatas and symphonies. Prominent... |
3089 | "Luis Advis"
in 1988 by Quilapayún with the Spanish singer Paloma San Basilio and an orchestra of Spanish musicians. In 1979 he published the book ""Displacer y Transendencia en el Arte"" (Displeasure and transcendence in Art). Among his last projects was an arrangement for ""Del Salón al Cabaret la Belle Epoque Chilen... |
3090 | "Luis Advis"
recorded in 2002. He composed ""Cinco danzas breves"" (Five brief dances) (cha-cha-chá, Cuban son, waltz, habanera and rag-time) for the Saxophonic Quartet Villafruela, which were released in the ""Saxofonos de Latinoamérica"" (Saxophones of Latin America) CD. In his final days he completed an oratorio tit... |
3091 | "Luis Advis"
Semilla"". Other compositions include the orchestral ""Suite Latinoamericana"", a wind quintet, music for theatre, cinema and television, in a musical catalogue that comprises more than 150 works that covers all spheres and goes from the classical to the popular-folk. Advis was a fundamental figure in Lati... |
3092 | "Duchess Anna of Prussia"
Duchess Anna of Prussia Duchess Anna of Prussia and Jülich-Cleves-Berg (3 July 1576 – 30 August 1625) was Electress consort of Brandenburg and Duchess consort of Prussia by marriage to John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg. She was the daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, and Marie ... |
3093 | "Shosha (novel)"
of their friends. Shosha (novel) Shosha is a novel originally written in Yiddish by Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The main character is aspiring author Aaron Greidinger who lives in the Hasidic quarter of the Jewish neighborhood of Warsaw during the 1930s. ""I was an anachronism in ... |
3094 | "Spino-olivary tract"
Spino-olivary tract The spino-olivary tract (historically Helweg's tract) is located in the anterior funiculus of the spinal cord and provides transmission of unconscious proprioception and is involved in balance. This tract carries proprioception information from muscles and tendons as well as cu... |
3095 | "Duchess Anna of Prussia"
became the protector and spokesperson of the Lutherans. She continued to play an important role during the reign of her son. She opposed the Habsburgs and secured the marriage of her daughter Maria Eleonora to the King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden against her son's will in 1620. Duchess Anna of... |
3096 | "1748 English cricket season"
1748 English cricket season 1748 was the 52nd English cricket season since the earliest known important match was played. Details have survived of six important eleven-a-side and 18 single wicket matches. 1748 was the halcyon season of single wicket, perhaps never so popular before or sinc... |
3097 | "Dudley Smith"
the 1997 general election. Smith served as a junior minister for the British Army and Employment during the Edward Heath government of 1970 to 1974. Dudley Smith Sir Dudley Gordon Smith (14 November 1926 – 14 December 2016) was a British Conservative politician. Smith was educated at Chichester High Scho... |
3098 | "Parks and open spaces in London"
Parks and open spaces in London There are many parks and open spaces in Greater London, England. Green space in central London consists of five of the capital's eight Royal Parks, supplemented by a number of small garden squares scattered throughout the city centre. Open space in the r... |
3099 | "Parks and open spaces in London"
including 3,000 parks and totaling 35,000 acres. The centrepieces of Greater London's park system are the eight Royal Parks of London. Covering 1976 hectares (4,882 acres), they are former royal hunting grounds which are now open to the public. Many of the smaller green spaces in centr... |
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