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4000 | "Howe Military Academy"
Howe Military Academy Howe Military Academy is a private, co-educational, and college preparatory boarding school located on a campus in Northeast Indiana. The school enrolls students in grades 7-12. Founded in the fall of 1884 Howe Grammar School, later renamed Howe Military Academy, was establ... |
4001 | "Howe Military Academy"
bishop of Indiana, and Dr. Charles Spaulding, the first rector at Howe, took the $10,000 bequest left by John Howe and increased it to $50,000 to establish Howe Grammar School for boys. The school opened in the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Howe, built in 1844, with two boys. The school became a m... |
4002 | "Howe Military Academy"
high of 125 such schools, and one of only 2 in Indiana. For many years, the Howe house has been the home of the chaplain who serves Howe Military Academy. This was the house in which John B. Howe drafted the 1851 Constitution of the State of Indiana. St. James Memorial Chapel is on the National ... |
4003 | "Howe Military Academy"
tennis are available. Also Howe has a perennially nationally ranked rifle team that is available to both men and women. Howe Military Academy Howe Military Academy is a private, co-educational, and college preparatory boarding school located on a campus in Northeast Indiana. The school enrolls s... |
4004 | "Tom Clough"
After the Northumbrian Pipers' Society was founded in 1928, Henry was elected as one of the Vice-Presidents. A photograph of him playing the pipes is available at . Henry's son Tom (III) (1881-1964), the main subject of this article, is notable for several reasons. He studied with Thomas Todd, having first... |
4005 | "F. K. Otto Dibelius"
Prussia's older Provinces. In 1906–1907, he was the assistant pastor at the Klosterkirche in Guben. In 1907–1909, he was the archdeacon at St. Mary's Church in Crossen an der Oder. In 1909–1910, he was the assistant pastor at the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul in Danzig. From 1911 to 1915, he was th... |
4006 | "Tom Clough"
and himself a piper. A photograph of Harry Clough, Kennedy North and Tom Clough is visible at . Kennedy North's influence was probably crucial in arranging Tom's recordings, his performances at concerts in London, his broadcasts for the BBC, and a folk music tour of Germany and the Netherlands. Kennedy Nor... |
4007 | "Guernica Editions"
Guernica Editions Guernica Editions is a Canadian independent publisher established in Montreal, Quebec, in 1978, by Antonio D'Alfonso. Guernica specializes in Canadian literature, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Guernica's current publishers are Connie McParland (Montreal) and editor in chief Micha... |
4008 | "Guernica Editions"
moved operations from Montreal to Toronto and focused on English language books and only occasionally printed books in French. One of Guernica's significant contributions to Canadian letters is its promotion of ethnic minority writers including Italian-Canadian authors, Dutch, Arab, Greek, African-C... |
4009 | "Guernica Editions"
Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, M.G. Vassanji, Jack Hodgins, George Elliott Clarke, Nino Ricci, Alistair MacLeod, Aritha Van Herk, F.G. Paci, Al Purdy, Mary di Michele, David Adams Richards, Anne Hebert, Daniel David Moses, Caterina Edwards, Don McKay, P.K. Page, Pier Giorgio DiCicco (Hutcheon) and ... |
4010 | "F. K. Otto Dibelius"
of Gentiles of Jewish descent, when SA members stood outside Jewish shops attempting to enforce the boycott through intimidation, and when swastikas and anti-Jewish slogans were painted on shop-windows. In an address for US radio he commended the restraint shown in the boycott, with ""only one sin... |
4011 | "Tom Clough"
Cologne with a group of singers; the trip was organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music, the Nederland-England Society and the Folk-song Society. The group also made a radio broadcast from Cologne. Tom Clough was an influential teacher of the pipes, though at an advanced level: his pupi... |
4012 | "Tom Clough"
quite know how he did it!."" He described Tom Clough's set of exercises, which he said were similar to G.G. Armstrong's – Armstrong had learned from the Clough family. These exercises consisted of scales and arpeggios – the pupil would have to start slowly, and increase speed till mistakes happened. Anothe... |
4013 | "Tom Clough"
it bar by bar. If there was a bar bothering you, you played that bar until you got it right. Then you put the bars together, then put the measure together, and then eventually the tune together. Finally you could start at the beginning and go through it."" Tommy Breckons also recalled his friend Billy Pigg... |
4014 | "Tom Clough"
Billy's. Billy told me that when he first went to one of these sessions there were fourteen pipers in the house, ""...and everyone was better than me! By God..., there were some good pipers. But all I had to dee was practice and get up alongside them."" A book on the family and their music, was published b... |
4015 | "Tom Clough"
music manuscripts. These include his extensive collection of variation sets. Of these, some are distinctive versions of traditional variation sets, such as ""I saw my love come passing by me"", other sets are his own compositions such as the variations on ""The tailors are aal gyen styen blind"". Others ar... |
4016 | "Tom Clough"
century version omits the final strain. Comparison of the recordings of ""The Keel Row"" and ""Holey Ha'penny"" with his manuscripts of the same pieces, and his notes on how to play them, suggests that most of the pieces in his huge repertoire were played much more floridly than he notated them. Unfortunat... |
4017 | "Tom Clough"
1943, Clough was, both alone and in collaboration with others, particularly Fred Picknell, a prolific maker of Northumbrian pipes. The earliest dateable reference to anybody buying a Clough chanter is from 1911, while Clough generally played a chanter by Picknell, which he used playing for King Edward in 1... |
4018 | "Tom Clough"
made drone reeds from pieces of a bead curtain from the home of his wife Nancy's parents. This is corroborated by many of his surviving drone reeds having been previously painted black, including some in a set belonging to 'Young Tom', now in the possession of Chris Ormston. While those pipes Clough made o... |
4019 | "Tom Clough"
is no evidence Picknell played the pipes himself, it would make sense for him to collaborate with Clough, considered the best piper of his age. The piper and pipemaker Andy May, who has studied many of their surviving complete sets and chanters, has written, that they were the most prolific makers of exten... |
4020 | "Carousel Theater"
1970s, including Ella Fitzgerald (1963) and Jimi Hendrix (1968) & Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa (1969). The Carousel Theater was closed in the early 1970s and has been replaced by ""Carousel Office Park"", which consists of several office buildings. Carousel Theater The Carousel Theater was a theatre ... |
4021 | "2005 Capital One Bowl"
2005 Capital One Bowl The 2005 Capital One Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the LSU Tigers on January 1, 2005, at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. Spread bettors favored LSU by seven points, but Iowa won, 30–25, when quarterback Drew Tate comple... |
4022 | "Anthony Coombs (politician)"
Anthony Coombs (politician) Anthony Michael Vincent Coombs (born 18 November 1952) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and a company director. Coombs was educated at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford. Coombs was a Councillor on the Birmingham City Counc... |
4023 | "Tam, de nas nema"
Tam, de nas nema Tam, de nas nema (; ""Wherever We Aren't"") is the debut studio album of the popular Ukrainian rock group Okean Elzy. Svyatoslav Vakarchuk is the lead vocalist and songwriter for most of the lyrics on this album. It was released in 1998 by the Kiev-based record label Lavina Music. Th... |
4024 | "Kihansi Dam"
Kihansi Dam Kihansi Dam, also Kihansi Hydroelectric Power Station, is a hydroelectric dam located on the Kihansi River at the southern end of the Kihansi Gorge before the convergence with the Ulanga River in Tanzania, approximately , by road, southwest of Dar Es Salaam. The Kihansi Dam is a concrete gravi... |
4025 | "Kihansi Dam"
Tanzania. The Kihansi Dam destroyed an 800m-high waterfall, affected over 20,000 villagers, and was directly responsible for the extinction in the wild of the Kihansi Spray Toad. The dam reduced the amount of silt and water coming down from the waterfall into the gorge by 90 percent. This led to the spray... |
4026 | "Washington Irving Branch"
years. Built in 1926, the Irving Branch had a long, airy room with exposed wood trusses and rafters. At the time of its closure, no major physical changes had been made to the building since its construction, and books remained housed on thick wood shelves. The Washington Irving Branch was de... |
4027 | "Washington Irving Branch"
branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. With respect to the Irving Branch, the application described the building as a one-story Mediterranean building, constructed of hollow tile and fi... |
4028 | "F. K. Otto Dibelius"
General Synod (de facto destroyed since 1933), became the ""Council of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union"". The heads of the church body, in office for a term of two years, now bore the title ""President of the Council"" (). Until the appointment of the first head in 1952 Dibelius, ... |
4029 | "Washington Irving Branch"
a different location. The majority of 62 speakers at a public forum on the closure spoke in favor of saving the old branch by renovating and expanding the existing structure. Commission President Martha D. Katsufrankis said at the time: ""I'm old and I appreciate old things, but we have to th... |
4030 | "Washington Irving Branch"
believe that for one second. What are they going to turn it into-a police station? A fire station? It's a library, damn it."" The library commission agreed in 1991 not to move the Irving branch from its historic Mid-City home of 65 years until a new tenant could be found to take over the buil... |
4031 | "Washington Irving Branch"
anyone wants."" Despite the promises, a new tenant or use was not found. The new Washington Irving Branch opened in 2000, and the old branch on Arlington Avenue has been vacant, boarded up, and fenced for many years. As of 2008, it was marred with graffiti and the lot covered with weeds and l... |
4032 | "Jordan Belfi"
role in the CBS series ""Moonlight"", starring as the female lead's boyfriend. Belfi also appeared briefly in the ""Gilmore Girls"" Season 5 episode ""The Party's Over"". He also guest starred on ""Hawaii Five-0"" as Spenser Owens in Season 1 Episode 14 ""He Kane Hewa' Ole."" In 2012, he guest starred on... |
4033 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
adaptation that may have been the more alarming because it portrayed a popular uprising, or workers' insurrection, in the Southern United States by laid-off millworkers trying to gain control of the factory equipment on which their jobs depended. Philip Yordan was officially given credit for ... |
4034 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
were perceived to be numerous sexy scenes throughout, though in recent decades the film's scandalous reputation has diminished. After decades of neglect, the film was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive under the supervision of master restorer Robert Gitt. As part of Gitt's resto... |
4035 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
on his wife Rosamund (Helen Westcott) with Griselda (Tina Louise). Ty Ty has been digging for gold on his land for 15 years, constantly searching for the treasure his grandfather left him. Consequently, the farm has suffered from years of neglect. Pluto Swint (Buddy Hackett) arrives to announ... |
4036 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
his eyes closed, he sneaks a peek. In the belief that having an albino with him in his quest for treasure will bring him great fortune, Ty Ty transports and wrongfully imprisons Dave Dawson (Michael Landon), a man with white hair and pink eyes, demanding that he help him locate the buried tre... |
4037 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
new spot to the church. In the middle of the night Will leaves his house, followed by Griselda. He breaks open the mill's gates and enters the property. At first, she distracts him from his purpose, and they kiss. He then escorts her back to the gates and asks the growing crowd to restrain he... |
4038 | "God's Little Acre (film)"
to his house. Griselda enters to tell Rosamund the bad news, but the other cries out that she already knows what has happened. Implicitly, at this point the tide in the county elections turns irreversibly. The populist Pluto Swint is elected sheriff, replacing the incumbent. The Walden family... |
4039 | "Abbas Ibrahim"
Abbas Ibrahim Abbas Ibrahim (born August 13, 1941) is a Maldivian politician. He is the brother-in-law of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom. Ibrahim is a former speaker of the Majlis (parliament) of the Maldives. He has served as an MP since 1981, from 1985 to 1995 he was one of the president's une... |
4040 | "Laura Badea-Cârlescu"
Laura Badea-Cârlescu Laura Gabriela Badea-Cârlescu (née Badea on 28 March 1970) is a retired Romanian foil fencer, world champion in 1995 and Olympic champion in 1996. After her retirement she became a coach, then a sport administrator. She is now vice-president of the Romanian Fencing Federatio... |
4041 | "Laura Badea-Cârlescu"
of Alexandre Dumas' ""The Three Musketeers"", she immediately took to the sport. She later joined CSA Steaua București, of which she is still a member. She graduated from the National Academy of Physical Education and Sport in 1995. She obtained in 2003 a master in communication and human resour... |
4042 | "Eugene Braunwald"
of Cardiology was above any other. ""We have the technology but they have the practice. The best book of cardiology is the patient itself,"" he always argued. Braunwald was inspired to perform research in cardiology after working with André Frédéric Cournand, a pioneer in the technique of cardiac cat... |
4043 | "Eugene Braunwald"
of cardiology and clinical director at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He was then recruited to the University of California, San Diego where from 1968-1972 he was the founding Chair of the Department of Medicine, bringing John Ross, Jr. with him to ... |
4044 | "Leonce and Lena"
Leonce and Lena Leonce and Lena () is a play by Georg Büchner (1813–1837) which is considered a comedy, but is actually a satire veiled in humor. It was written in the spring of 1836 for a competition 'for the best one- or two-act comedy in prose or verse' sponsored by the Stuttgart publisher Cotta. H... |
4045 | "Leonce and Lena"
Max Halbe and Oskar Panizza, illustrating the fact that Büchner only gained prominence as a writer in the 20th century. Erich Kästner considered ""Leonce and Lena"" to be one of the six most important classic comedies in German language. There are two imaginary countries: the Kingdom Popo and the King... |
4046 | "Eugene Braunwald"
has ""had more publications in the top general medical and cardiology journals than any of the more than 42,000 authors"" in the main database (called PubMed) of medical authors. He is the editor of the premier cardiology textbook, ""Braunwald's Heart Disease"", which is now in its 11th edition. Dr. ... |
4047 | "Eugene Braunwald"
an editor of one of the premier textbooks of internal medicine, ""Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine"". Braunwald's lab was the setting for the case of John Darsee. Young fellow researchers in the laboratory caught Darsee fabricating results. Braunwald denied knowledge of this academic miscon... |
4048 | "George Robledo"
George Robledo Jorge ""George"" Robledo Oliver (14 April 1926 – 1 April 1989) was a Chilean professional footballer. He played as a striker, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United. He was the first non-British-registered foreign player to become top scorer in England. Robledo was ... |
4049 | "Stanley Harbour"
Hill. During the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939, the ""Graf Spee"" concentrated fire upon the ""Exeter"" inflicting some 40 direct hits and causing major damage. On the 16 December, ""Exeter"" limped into Stanley Harbour, with 60 of the 600 crew dead and 49 wounded. The crew had to be boar... |
4050 | "George Robledo"
derby match against Sunderland at St James' Park. Newcastle came out of the match 2–1 winners, with Robledo's goal separating the sides, helping to quickly make him a fan favourite. The other Newcastle goal scorer was Jackie Milburn, marking the start of one of the great striking partnerships in Newcas... |
4051 | "George Robledo"
beat Blackpool 2–0 to lift the Cup. Robledo finished as Division One's top scorer in the 1951–52 season with 33 goals, 39 in all competitions (equalling Hughie Gallacher's record). Robledo finished the season by scoring the goal which defeated Arsenal in the FA Cup final, helping Newcastle lift the cup... |
4052 | "George Robledo"
record to 82 (making him the highest scoring (non-Irish) overseas player in the English top flight, a record that was broken nearly half a century later by Dwight Yorke). At the end of the season, Ted Robledo was sold to Colo-Colo and George soon followed him, with Colo-Colo paying Newcastle £25,000 fo... |
4053 | "George Robledo"
he played out the final years of his career, until his retirement in 1960. Chile recruited Robledo for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, even though he spoke no Spanish. He made his debut in the opening group game against England (one of his opponents reputedly warned him after he'd hit the post ""Steady, Georg... |
4054 | "George Robledo"
side, scoring eight goals over a period of seven years. Robledo married in 1959, and later had a daughter. He finally retired from football in 1961 and took charge of the sports program in St Peter's school, Viña del Mar, where he remained leading a quiet life until his death of a heart attack in April... |
4055 | "George Robledo"
oil tanker into the sea off Dubai in December 1970, aged only 42. His body has never been found. George Robledo Jorge ""George"" Robledo Oliver (14 April 1926 – 1 April 1989) was a Chilean professional footballer. He played as a striker, and is most notable for his time spent with Newcastle United. He ... |
4056 | "Hale Dam"
Hale Dam Hale Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Tanzania, located in the Tanga Region. Its installed capacity is . Thousands of people were displaced to build the dam. The Hale Dam is the oldest operation dam currently in the country. The Pangani river basin had been a source of power since the early colonial ti... |
4057 | "The Island of the Mighty"
the blow that was struck against him. He kills Goronwy with his spear, which is thrown so hard it pierces him through the stone he is hiding behind. The Island of the Mighty The Island of the Mighty is a fantasy novel by Evangeline Walton, the earliest in a series of four based on the Welsh "... |
4058 | "Hale Dam"
comprising Francis turbines and salient pole generators and has an installed capacity of . The plant has undergone heavy rehabilitation twice since its inauguration, in 1987 and 2009. The construction of the dam in the 1960s led to the displacement of about 12,000 people. However, after the establishment of ... |
4059 | "Port William, Falkland Islands"
as Navy Point, effectively divides Port William from Stanley Harbour. As such this is the busiest waterway of the Falkland Islands and frequently visited by cruise ships, freighters and navy vessels, although this has lessened since the building of the two airports at RAF Mount Pleasant... |
4060 | "Port William, Falkland Islands"
(FIG) to proceed with costed proposals for a new deep water port and associated infrastructure at Port William. Port William, Falkland Islands Port William (French: ""Baye Choiseul"", Spanish: ""Puerto Groussac"") is a large inlet on the east coast of East Falkland island. A strait call... |
4061 | "Rab and his Friends"
Rab and his Friends ""Rab and his Friends"" (1859) is a short story by Scottish writer Dr John Brown. It was very popular in the 19th century and often considered John Brown's best, or at least most well known work. Even though short in length it was often published as a single volume with illustr... |
4062 | "Rab and his Friends"
simple story which includes an insight into how John Brown's teacher and employer, Doctor James Syme, taught and operated. The other main characters are Rab, a ferocious mastiff dog, his owner, James Noble, a or by trade, and the carter's ailing wife Ailie. Set in Edinburgh in the 1830s, the story... |
4063 | "Rab and his Friends"
hospital with his wife Allie, who is found to have advanced breast cancer. Following an operation, Allie dies, attended by James and Rab. Not long after Allie's funeral, James dies too, and the carrier's business is sold, along with James's horse and dog. A chance meeting between Brown and the new... |
4064 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
Carola B. Eisenberg Carola Blitzman Eisenberg (born September 15, 1917) was the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990, she was the Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She has for a long time been Lectur... |
4065 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
she has been involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and elsewhere. She turned 100 in September 2017 and is still living on her own in her own home. She is a native Argentine and is a cofounder of Physicians for Human Rig... |
4066 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
Social Work in Hospicio De Las Mercedes (Hospice of the Virgin of Mercy), Argentina. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and taking her psychiatric training at the Hospicio De Las Mercedes, she emigrated to the U.S. and became Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the Jo... |
4067 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
From 1972 to 1978, she served as Dean of Students at MIT, the first woman to occupy that position and the first to serve on the Academic Council, its highest academic governing authority. In 1978, after leaving MIT, she was appointed Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, where she se... |
4068 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
Human Rights and Medical Practice, American College of Physicians (1989–1993), National Institutes of Health (1992), Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services (1992), National Research Council of the National Academy of Science and The National Academy of Engineering (... |
4069 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
and Engineering of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee to the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of Boston's Examiner Club and active in both The Cambridge-base... |
4070 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School of Boston. As the wife of the late Dr. Manfred Guttmacher (brother of Alan Frank Guttmacher), she is the mother of Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD, who is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities and also Advisory Dean, University ... |
4071 | "Carola B. Eisenberg"
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), also at NIH. Carola B. Eisenberg Carola Blitzman Eisenberg (born September 15, 1917) was the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990, she was the Dean of Stude... |
4072 | "Sinister Street"
Sinister Street Sinister Street is a 1913–14 novel by Compton Mackenzie. It is a kind of bildungsroman or novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents. In... |
4073 | "Sinister Street"
film ""Sinister Street"" directed by George Beranger. In 1969 it was adapted for a TV series ""Sinister Street"" by the BBC. George Orwell enjoyed the book illicitly as a prep school boy at St Cyprian's School in Eastbourne where the headmistress, Mrs 'Flip' Wilkes, gave a prize for the best list of b... |
4074 | "Sinister Street"
the comment, ""There was a fearful row about bringing that kind of book into the school,"" Bowker suggests ""It was not surprising that ""Sinister Street"" should so rivet young Eric. Its hero, Michael Fane, is studying Classics at a prep school, and moves with his mother from the countryside to Kensi... |
4075 | "Sinister Street"
Blair and Connolly, no doubt). Fane envies a wild looking, unkempt boy he sees wandering down Kensington High Street and longs to be 'a raggle-taggle wanderer'."" Connolly also wrote critically of the book in the first section of ""Enemies of Promise"" stating ""Nineteen fourteen was also the year of ... |
4076 | "Sinister Street"
Max Beerbohm said of it ""There is no book on Oxford like it. It gives you the actual Oxford experience. What Mackenzie has miraculously done is to make you feel what each term was like."" Frank Swinnerton, literary critic, described it as thus. ""It is the picture of the development of a very precoci... |
4077 | "Sinister Street"
is literary, sentimental and florid. But it has no timidities; it is large and confident; it is a picture of something more than a single life. It is a record of a departed generation."" John Betjeman said of it, ""This has always seemed to me one of the best novels of the best period in English novel... |
4078 | "Enterprise Municipal Airport (Oregon)"
Enterprise Municipal Airport (Oregon) Enterprise Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located in Enterprise, a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. Enterprise Municipal Airport covers an area of 10 acres (4 ha) at an elevation of 3,957 feet (1,206 m) ab... |
4079 | "Enterprise Municipal Airport (Oregon)"
at this airport: 87% single-engine and 13% ultralight. Enterprise Municipal Airport (Oregon) Enterprise Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located in Enterprise, a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. Enterprise Municipal Airport covers an area of 10 ... |
4080 | "Uncle Peretz Takes Off"
Uncle Peretz Takes Off Uncle Peretz Takes Off (הדוד פרץ ממריא, Ha-Dod Peretz Mamree in Hebrew), is a collection of short stories by Israeli writer Yaakov Shabtai. An English translation by Dalya Bilu was published in 2004. The stories present a gallery of characters in Tel Aviv of the 1940s, in... |
4081 | "Uncle Peretz Takes Off"
Shabtai was in his thirties, and still mostly focused on his work as a playwright. Following his experience with these stories, Shabtai decided to dedicate himself to prose. Once the collection was published he turned to writing novels, and never attempted to write short stories again. The firs... |
4082 | "Time of Defiance"
Shadoo, but it is war only fought by the Eighth House and few other Cog have even seen a real Shadoo. The Shadoo are a more technologically advanced race than the Cog. They are a more philosophical race than the energetic Cog, and their architecture reflects this. In the game the only way to acquire ... |
4083 | "Uncle Peretz Takes Off"
seven of these ""memory"" stories, as either protagonist or witness. All the stories in the collection except two, ""Cordoba"" and ""The Voyage to Mauritius"", take place in Tel Aviv. The thirteen stories, in order, are: Shabtai deemed these seven stories as unfitting for the collection; they w... |
4084 | "Mill pond"
Mill pond A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam or weir (and mill stream) across a waterway. In many places, the common proper name Mill Pond has remained even though the mill has long s... |
4085 | "Mill pond"
mill pond, is the power producing purpose of the civil engineering hydraulic system. The term mill pond is often used colloquially and in literature to refer to a very flat body of water. Witnesses of the loss of RMS Titanic reported that the sea was ""like a mill pond"". Mill pond A mill pond (or millpond)... |
4086 | "Prostitution in Italy"
Prostitution in Italy In Italy, prostitution (), defined as the exchange of sexual acts for money, is legal, although organized prostitution, whether indoors in brothels or controlled by third parties, is prohibited. Brothels were banned in 1958. A euphemism often used to refer to street prostit... |
4087 | "Prostitution in Italy"
Venice, particularly in the 17th century. The ""Regolamentazione"", or the ""regulation system of prostitution"", was established in 1861, with Italian unification, modeled on the French Napoleonic system of ""Réglementation"" and the Bureau des Moeurs (a government office tasked with regulating... |
4088 | "Prostitution in Italy"
with the enactment of the ""Regulations of the Security Service on Prostitution"". A further law (""Legge Crispi""), adopted on 29 March 1888, prohibited the selling of food and drinks, and parties, dances, and songs in brothels, and banned such establishments near places of worship, schools, an... |
4089 | "Prostitution in Italy"
set up, under the belief that they were the main sources of spreading venereal diseases. Although prostitutes found this regulated system oppressive, they developed ways to resist it. During the Fascist rule (1922–1943), more restrictive measures were gradually introduced in 1923, 1933, and 1940... |
4090 | "Prostitution in Italy"
the abolition of prostitution itself. However, these forces led to the introduction of a new system in Italy that abolished regulation, but not prostitution as such. The ""Legge Merlin"" (L75/1958) (the Merlin Law, named after its main author, the Socialist Party member of parliament Lina Merlin... |
4091 | "Prostitution in Italy"
in any way promotes or exploits the prostitution of others"" (""chiunque in qualsiasi modo favorisca o sfrutti la prostituzione altrui""). Article 3.3 lists a number of public places where prostitution is prohibited, such as houses, hotels, dance halls, and entertainment clubs. Article 5 prohibi... |
4092 | "Prostitution in Italy"
trafficking, exploitation, and aiding and abetting of prostitution. What remained legal was street prostitution, or independent prostitution done by a prostitute in their own home. The law was promoted as an equality measure liberating women, but despite its good intentions to give more rights t... |
4093 | "Prostitution in Italy"
law remained a subject of intense debate, with its defence being seen as a feminist issue, though both Marxists and Catholics support it. The Christian Democrats repeatedly sought the repeal of the law since 1973, and they were joined in 1998 by the Democrats of the Left. Repeal of the law would... |
4094 | "Prostitution in Italy"
the ""Comitato"" (see Advocacy, below), attempts to change the law continued, with 22 bills introduced in the 1996-2001 legislative assembly. Prostitution in Italy became much more visible in the early 1990s with the increase of migration from Eastern Europe and Western Africa which had begun in... |
4095 | "Prostitution in Italy"
from Nigeria and Peru, arriving to Italy using tourist visas and staying in the country after they had expired (the so-called ""clandestini"") ensued, followed by a third wave from Albania in 1993-1994. The fourth wave in 1995 also came from Nigeria and Albania, while in 1996-1998, even more mig... |
4096 | "Prostitution in Italy"
of foreign nationals, coerced prostitution, and under-aged prostitutes have re-shaped the prostitution debate in Italy, as elsewhere around Europe, in recent years. Descriptions of the conditions of migrant women, particularly young women, on the streets, shifted the debate in the 1990s from the... |
4097 | "Prostitution in Italy"
now be mainly foreigners. In turn, this created another force driving public attitudes, which were community groups from urban neighbourhoods where street prostitution was most visible, particularly since the mid-1990s. Municipalities have also tried to police sex work themselves since 1994, whi... |
4098 | "North Forsyth High School (North Carolina)"
of the Air Force JROTC. The Vikings also have a strong, successful record in the athletic arena. North Forsyth competed for nearly 20 years in the Metro 4A Conference. (Football, Volleyball, Cross Country, Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Indoor Track & Field, Swimming, Wrestling, Outd... |
4099 | "North Forsyth High School (North Carolina)"
Piedmont 3A conference, North Forsyth has won three titles in boys' basketball, two in boys' swimming and one in girls' swimming. The boys' basketball team won their third-straight conference title in 2012. It is the first time in school history that the basketball team has ... |
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