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8100 | "Sheikh Hasina"
to create provisions for a caretaker government (CTG). The next parliamentary elections on 30 June 1996 were held under a neutral caretaker government headed by retired chief Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman. Sheik Hasina Wazed served her first term as prime minister of Bangladesh from 1996-2001. She bec... |
8101 | "Sheikh Hasina"
to the private sector which till then was limited to government owned companies. In 1999 the government started the New Industrial Policy (NIP) which aimed to strengthen the private industry and encourage growth. Bangladesh joined two multilateral bodies, BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sect... |
8102 | "Zheng Tan"
the eunuchs, led by Qiu Shiliang, often tried to humiliate the imperial officials by citing the examples of Li Xun and Zheng Zhu. It was said that Li Shi and Zheng Tan responded by pointing out that Li Xun and Zheng Zhu had initially been recommended to Emperor Wenzong by the eunuch Wang Shoucheng. Thereaft... |
8103 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Picasso a first ""La Plume"" edition of ""Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin."" Concerning Gauguin's impact on Picasso, art historian John Richardson wrote, The 1906 exhibition of Gauguin's work left Picasso more than ever in this artist's thrall. Gauguin demonstrated the most dispa... |
8104 | "Sheikh Hasina"
secretary Ivy Rahman. On October 10, 2018, a special court gave verdict to two cases filed over the incident; the court ruled that it was a well-orchestrated plan, executed through abuse of state power and all the accused, including BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman and former top intelligence off... |
8105 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Demoiselles."" Sweetman writes, Gauguin's statue ""Oviri"", which was prominently displayed in 1906, was to stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print-making, though it was the element of the primitive in all of them ... |
8106 | "Sheikh Hasina"
was marked by violence and strikes. Presidential Advisor Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury negotiated with Hasina and Khaleda Zia and brought all the parties to the planned 22 January 2007 parliamentary elections. Later Hussain Muhammad Ershad's nomination was cancelled; as a result, the Grand Alliance withdre... |
8107 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
his Cubist head. Has it been a revelation, like Iberian sculpture? Picasso's shrug was grudgingly affirmative. He was always loath to admit Gauguin's role in setting him on the road to primitivism. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Europe's colonization of Africa led to many economic, soci... |
8108 | Ioannina
Mosque and Madrassa of Veli Pasha are located in a central location of the city, and Kaloutsiani mosque can be found in the area of the city with the same name. The now derelict ""House Of the Archbishop"", located close to the football stadium, is the only old mansion that survived the fire of 1820. Some of t... |
8109 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
obviously the fragmented planes of the two on the right, which indeed seem influenced by African masks. Lawrence Weschler says that, in many ways, much of the moldering cultural and even scientific ferment that characterized the first decade and a half of the twentieth century and that laid ... |
8110 | Ioannina
fire of 1820. The Cathedral of St Athanasius was completed in 1933. It was built on the foundations of the previous Orthodox Cathedral which was destroyed in the fires of 1820. It is a three-aisled basilica. Some of the most important museums of the city are located within the walls of the castle. The Municipa... |
8111 | Ioannina
the castle. The museum opened in 1995 in order to preserve and present artefacts of the wider region of Epirus covering the period from the 4th to the 19th century. The newest addition to the city's museum, the silversmithing museum, is also located in the south-eastern citadel. It is housed in the western bas... |
8112 | Ioannina
the human habitation of Epirus from prehistoric times through the late Roman Period, with special emphasis placed on finds from the Dodona sanctuary.The Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina (Dimotiki Pinakothiki) is housed in the Pyrsinella neoclassical building dating from around 1890. The gallery's collection d... |
8113 | Ioannina
as the history of the region and is the result of the personal work of Pavlos Vrellis. The University of Ioannina (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, ""Panepistimio Ioanninon"") is a university located 5 km southwest of Ioannina, Greece. The university was founded in 1964, as a charter of the Aristotle University ... |
8114 | Ioannina
staff. The university Administrative Services are staffed with 420 employees. The University of Ioannina is one of the leading academic institutions in Greece. The Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Epirus was founded in 1994 in the northwestern part of Greece. It is a Public Institution, complete... |
8115 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Duchamp. Princet became known as ""le mathématicien du cubisme"" (""the mathematician of cubism""). Princet is credited with introducing the work of Henri Poincaré and the concept of the ""fourth dimension"" to artists at the Bateau-Lavoir. Princet brought to the attention of Picasso, Metzin... |
8116 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
influence on the artist's work. Although ""Les Demoiselles"" had an enormous and profound influence on modern art, its impact was not immediate, and the painting stayed in Picasso's studio for many years. At first, only Picasso's intimate circle of artists, dealers, collectors and friends we... |
8117 | Preveza
1779, the Orthodox missionary Kosmas visited Preveza where it is said he founded a Greek school, which would be the only school of the city during the 18th century. At the end of the 18th century, Preveza became a transit center of trade with western Europe (particularly France), which resulted in the increase ... |
8118 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
at Picasso's studio. He let it be known that he regarded the painting as an attempt to ridicule the modern movement; he was outraged to find his sensational ""Blue Nude,"" not to speak of ""Bonheur de vivre,"" overtaken by Picasso's ""hideous"" whores. He vowed to get even and make Picasso b... |
8119 | Preveza
to the fate of the small Preveza garrison exposed on the edge of Ottoman territory. In October 1798, the local Ottoman governor Ali Pasha Tepelena – having great ambitions to make himself a semi-independent ruler – attacked Preveza with an overwhelming force. In the Battle of Nicopolis on 12 October 1798 the 7,... |
8120 | Preveza
the local Greek population which defended the city took place in Preveza and Port Salaora, on the Ambracian Gulf, starting before Ali Pasha entered Preveza on 13 October but also continuing in his presence. On 14 October, Ali Pasha called on those citizens of Preveza who had escaped to the Acarnanian Mountains ... |
8121 | Preveza
grand return and reception held for his victorious troops, which Ali Pasha organized at Ioannina, surviving French and rebel prisoners were given the unpleasant role of walking at the head of the procession, holding the cut and salted heads of their companions, under the shouts and jeers of Ioannina's pro-Ottom... |
8122 | Preveza
historical authenticity, link this incident with the origins of the Spoonmaker's Diamond, one of the most closely guarded treasures of Istanbul's Topkapı Palace. Though Preveza would remain under Ottoman rule for more than a century, this event – both the short period of Greek militias active in the city and th... |
8123 | "Internet Explorer for Mac"
OS 9, however two months after that release on May 15 a Mac OS X version was released, bundled with the Mac OS X DP4 release handed out to developers at the 2000 Worldwide Developers Conference. The Mac OS X Public Beta included another preview of the Mac OS X version of IE. The release of M... |
8124 | Preveza
of southern Epirus, including Preveza, were to be ceded by the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of Greece. Under this context, five meetings were held in Preveza, between Greek and Ottoman representatives, but all of them failed to reach an agreement. Even before negotiations started, the Ottoman side used a numbe... |
8125 | "Internet Explorer for Mac"
text smoothing. In 2002, Microsoft reassigned developers to develop version 6 of Internet Explorer for Mac, intended to be used as the base for a new product. MSN for Mac OS X would be a subscription-only browser that worked with the online MSN service, incorporate features like an address b... |
8126 | Preveza
but the Ottoman side disagreed with the proposed border by using as an excuse the unrest created by Albanian representatives. In March 1881, the Ottoman side proposed the cession of Thessaly and Arta regions, a proposal that ignored the Albanian positions, and was finally accepted by Greece, although most of Ep... |
8127 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
rapid stylistic metamorphosis, the variety of styles can be read as a deliberate attempt, a careful plan, to capture the gaze of the viewer. He notes that the five women all seem eerily disconnected, indeed wholly unaware of each other. Rather, they focus solely on the viewer, their divergen... |
8128 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
Copenhagen Zoo Copenhagen Zoo () is a zoological garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1859, it is one of the oldest zoos in Europe and is a member of EAZA. It comprises and is located in the municipality of Frederiksberg, sandwiched between the parks of Frederiksberg Gardens and Søndermarken. With... |
8129 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
invention), and the threat of violence inherent in the scene and sexual relations at large. According to Steinberg, the reversed gaze, that is, the fact that the figures look directly at the viewer, as well as the idea of the self-possessed woman, no longer there solely for the pleasure of t... |
8130 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
zoo had a human display with 25 Indians- men, women and children- in an exhibition where the ""brown exotic"" people went about their daily lives in palm tree leaf huts constructed in the middle of the zoo. One of the most notable animals kept there was a male slow worm that lived there from 1892 to 19... |
8131 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
experience to visitors. The Elephant House and Savanna are results of these efforts. The Savanna includes a Hippopotamus House where the hippos can be watched underwater. The zoo has preserved many of its historical buildings. The oldest building still in use, a stable for yaks, was erected in 1872, an... |
8132 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
offers views of the surrounding parklands and city. The tower was built in 1905 and is one of the tallest observation towers built of wood in the world. Its base is similar to that of Eiffel Tower. Animals exhibited at the zoo that are not housed in any of the main areas include bactrian camels, Americ... |
8133 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
bears, arctic foxes and grey wolves. The ""Arctic Ring"" (), which opened in 2013, has an exhibit for polar bears (including a tunnel allowing underwater views) and an aviary for North Atlantic seabirds (alcids). In the ""Asia"" () section, visitors can see Oriental small-clawed otters, red pandas, Mal... |
8134 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
The other is and is for bulls, kept in separate pens during the mating season for fear of fights. The building also contain an exhibit space and a small lecture hall. The enclosures open out through mighty rusted steel doors into am almost 1 hectare big landscaped paddock with a pool deep and long. The... |
8135 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
the urban landscape. At the same time it affords the elephants distant views of open parkland and ancient trees, which prevents them feeling too enclosured. Most of the ""Africa"" () section is taken up by the ""Savanna"" () area. This is an open field with a visitor bridge above containing species suc... |
8136 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
to Copenhagen Zoo. The section was started after the wedding of Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Tasmanian native Mary Donaldson in 2004, where the Tasmanian government gifted four Tasmanian Devils to the zoo. These were the first Tasmanian devils to live outside of Australia. The area has... |
8137 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
are ""not today's experiences of art, they are among the experiences out which, and for which, art has been made - and without which a great deal of art would not have been made at all"". Carol Duncan in her 1973 article ""Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting"... |
8138 | "Copenhagen Zoo"
the recommendation of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria. His meat was fed to the zoo's lions, while other parts were transferred to a scientific institution. The scientific director at Copenhagen Zoo, Bengt Holst defended the culling, saying that the giraffes at the zoo bred very well, and w... |
8139 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
challenged until Leo Steinberg's article. Steinberg felt that by 1988 this method of critique had transformed from criticism to cliché and that reducing the work to a purely formal figure composition would make it a mere forerunner of things to come. Picasso had indeed abandoned the ""mement... |
8140 | "Ionian Islands"
are found because Io swam across it. Latin transliteration, as well as Modern Greek pronunciation, may suggest that the Ionian Sea and Islands are somehow related to Ionia, an Anatolian region; in fact the Ionian Sea and Ionian Islands are spelled in Greek with an omicron (Ιόνια), whereas Ionia has an ... |
8141 | "Pennsylvania Railroad class I1s"
cylinders enabled the I1s to apply that power to the rails. Their power was undeniable, but they were not popular with the crews, for they were hard riding at all but low speeds. One author described them as the holy terror of the PRR. The large boiler limited the size of the driving w... |
8142 | "Brian Cox (actor)"
and became co-artistic director of the Mirror Theater Ltd. In June 2017, Cox starred in ""Churchill"", playing the title role. In early 2018, Cox reprised his role of Captain John O'Hagen in ""Super Troopers 2"" (2018), a sequel to the 2001 film ""Super Troopers"". Early drafts of the script exclude... |
8143 | "William A. MacCorkle"
William A. MacCorkle William Alexander MacCorkle (May 7, 1857September 24, 1930), was a United States teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth Governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier. He was born near Lexington, Virginia. After briefly teaching school in Pocah... |
8144 | "William A. MacCorkle"
elected governor of West Virginia. As governor, MacCorkle advocated increased funding for state institutions and improved transportation. Through an advertising program, he actively promoted the state's natural resources to attract industry. MacCorkle opposed the growing labor movement among coal... |
8145 | "Ionian Islands"
Italian dukes. Corfu, Paxi and Kythera were taken by the Venetians in 1204, after the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade. These became important overseas colonies of the Republic and were used as way-stations for their maritime trade with the Levant. From 1204, the Republic of Ve... |
8146 | "William A. MacCorkle"
Clay Center about two miles away in downtown Charleston in 2003. The Sunrise estate currently houses a law firm. WM. A MacCorkle on May 9, 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama did address the Southern Conference On Race Problems. The address was entitled The Negro and The Intelligence and Property Franchi... |
8147 | "Rancho Park, Los Angeles"
Rancho Park, Los Angeles Rancho Park is a residential neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California with mostly single family homes and tree lined streets. The community is nestled between West Los Angeles and Cheviot Hills. This enclave draws young professionals and fam... |
8148 | "Rancho Park, Los Angeles"
in the 1930s. It is bordered by Sawtelle on the west, West Los Angeles on the northwest, Cheviot Hills on the East, and Westside Village on the south. The district's boundaries, while somewhat ill-defined, are generally considered to be the San Diego Freeway (I-405) or Sepulveda on the west, ... |
8149 | "Rancho Park, Los Angeles"
with Overland and Manning Avenues. Nearby is Santa Monica Boulevard. Rancho Park was named by area boosters after World War II. Rancho Park was developed in the 1920s as a middle-class area, and most of its housing stock consists of Spanish Colonial bungalows and ranch houses. Today, many of ... |
8150 | "Rancho Park, Los Angeles"
large deciduous trees in the strips between the sidewalk and the street. (Rancho Park is one of the few districts in Los Angeles where fall foliage can be seen.) The enclave is centrally located to other Westside communities. In 2009, the ""Los Angeles Times""'s ""Mapping L.A."" project suppl... |
8151 | "Rancho Park, Los Angeles"
Private school: Charter school: Los Angeles Public Library operates the Palms-Rancho Park Branch. The municipal Rancho Park Golf Course includes an 18-hole layout par 71 championship course. The park has Back Nine Play, a banquet room, a cart rental, a clubhouse, a lighted driving range, less... |
8152 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
and others. ""My first exorcism-painting,"" the artist once called the picture, in an oft-quoted statement. The demons within the work however, represented are mere fissions of danger. As, the images presented are merely paintings on canvas and rather than putting the viewer at risk of physi... |
8153 | "Hannibal (film)"
elaborate scheme to capture, torture, and kill Lecter ever since. Using his wealth and political influence, Verger has Starling reassigned to Lecter's case, hoping her involvement will draw Lecter out. After learning of Starling's public disgrace, Lecter sends her a taunting letter. Starling detects a... |
8154 | Harpagophytum
Northern Cape, South Africa. ""H. zeyheri"" is found in the northern parts of Namibia (Ovamboland) and southern Angola. The ethnobotanical use of devil's claw originated in southern Africa. ""H. procumbens"" is one of the floral emblems of Botswana where it is thought to be useful in treating a variety of... |
8155 | "Ionian Islands"
Bavarian-born king of Greece, King Otto, as unfriendly to Britain. However, in 1862, Otto was deposed and a pro-British king, George I from Denmark, was installed. In 1862, Britain decided to transfer the islands to Greece, as a gesture of support intended to bolster the new king's popularity. On May 2... |
8156 | "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
was on the top of the art world and didn't need to sell the painting to Doucet, did so and at that low price because Doucet promised ""Les Demoiselles"" would go to the Louvre in his will. However, after Doucet died in 1929 he did not leave the painting to the Louvre in his will, and it was ... |
8157 | "Ionian Islands"
extensive and the southern islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos were practically levelled. The islands were reconstructed from the ground up over the following years under a strict building code. The code has proven extremely effective, as many earthquakes since that time have caused no damage to new bui... |
8158 | "Ionian Islands"
the islands have lost much of their population through emigration and the decline of their traditional industries, fishing and marginal agriculture. Today, their major industry is tourism. Specifically Kerkyra, with its harbour, scenery and wealth of ruins and castles, is a favourite stopping place for... |
8159 | "Ionian Islands"
World War. The Ionian Islands' official population, excluding Cythera, in 2011 was 207,855, decreased by 1.50% compared to the population in 2001. Nevertheless, the region remains the third by population density with 90.1/km² nationwide, well above the national of 81.96/km². The most populous of the ma... |
8160 | "Hannibal (film)"
however, own the rights to the Lecter character and reportedly allowed Orion Pictures, which produced ""The Silence of the Lambs"", to use the character of Lecter for free, not wishing to be ""greedy"". When ""The Silence of the Lambs"" became a commercial and critical success in 1991, winning five Ac... |
8161 | "Hannibal (film)"
Laurentiis purchased the rights for a record $10 million. In April 1999, ""Los Angeles Times"" reported that the budget for an adaptation of ""Hannibal"" could cost as much as $100 million. It speculated that both Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins would receive $15 million each to reprise their roles a... |
8162 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
William F. Buckley Jr. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955, Buckley founded ""National Review"", a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement ... |
8163 | "Hannibal (film)"
He has since added that Demme felt he could not make a sequel as good as ""The Silence of the Lambs"". De Laurentiis visited Ridley Scott on the set of ""Gladiator"" and suggested to Ridley he read the novel he had bought the rights to. Scott was in the third week before principal photography was due ... |
8164 | "Hannibal (film)"
general and historical figure from Carthage who nearly brought down the Roman Empire back around 200 B.C., so he replied: ""Basically, Dino, I'm doing a Roman epic right now. I don't wanna do elephants coming over the Alps next, old boy."" Scott read the manuscript in four sittings within a week, beli... |
8165 | "Hannibal (film)"
Film Studio to see my old buddy Dino. I had not seen him since I'd worked on a version of ""Dune"". This was pre-""Blade Runner"". Dino had pursued me to direct ""Dune"" and another film. He's always enthusiastic and aggressive and came after me when I did both ""Blade Runner"" and ""Alien"", but I co... |
8166 | "Hannibal (film)"
'Let's make this one.' I haven't read anything so fast since ""The Godfather"". It was so rich in all kind of ways."" Although Scott had accepted the job Demme had rejected, he said: ""My first question was: 'What about Jonathan?' and they said: 'The original team said it's too violent.' I said, 'Okay... |
8167 | "Lucie Aubrac"
by Carole Bouquet. She herself endorsed the film. In April 1997, Jacques Vergès produced a ""Barbie testament"" which he claimed that Klaus Barbie had given him ten years earlier which purported to show the Aubracs had tipped off Barbie regarding Moulin. Vergès's ""Barbie testament"" was timed for the pu... |
8168 | "Hannibal (film)"
his ""Silence"" adaptation). Tally, like Demme, had problems with the novel's ""excesses"". Steven Zaillian (writer of ""Schindler's List"") was offered the chance to write the adaptation after Tally passed, but he also declined. He explained that ""I was busy. And I wasn't sure I was interested. You ... |
8169 | "Hermann Heights Monument"
depicted in this statue, Hermann's eastward gaze and upraised sword signify freedom from Rome. Perhaps not coincidentally, a statue of St. Paul atop the nearby Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Trinity also gazes eastward, with his sword point-down, planted firmly in the ground. The Herman... |
8170 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
Catholic Power,"" a Paul Blanshard book that accused American Catholics of having ""divided loyalties"". The release of his first book, ""God and Man at Yale"", in 1951 was met with some specific criticism pertaining to his Catholicism. McGeorge Bundy, dean of Harvard at the time, wrote in ""Th... |
8171 | "Hannibal (film)"
me enough attention, because that draft needed a lot of work. So I moved on basically."" Scott has said there were writing and ""structural problems"" as to what they would do with parts of the film. One of Zaillian's key objectives was to revise the script by David Mamet until it pleased all parties,... |
8172 | "Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi"
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an esteemed American medical physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris, and had a long career practicing medicine, te... |
8173 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
novel ""The Manchurian Candidate"" by Richard Condon in 1959 as ""that fascinating young man who wrote about man and God at Yale."" In 1954, Buckley co-wrote a book, ""McCarthy and His Enemies"", with his brother-in-law L. Brent Bozell Jr. that strongly defended Senator Joseph McCarthy as a pat... |
8174 | "Hannibal (film)"
book, even believing the final film was better for it. Hopkins also had doubts Foster would be involved, saying he had a ""hunch"" she would not be. Foster did turn it down, confirming this in late December 1999. This would cause problems for the studio, Universal and partner MGM. ""The studio is just... |
8175 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
that would extend the influence of the magazine toward the political center. Smant (1991) finds that Burnham overcame sometimes heated opposition from other members of the editorial board (including Meyer, Schlamm, William Rickenbacker, and the magazine's publisher, William A. Rusher), and had ... |
8176 | "Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi"
the University of Paris. After much negotiation and thanks to the help of the psychiatrist Benjamin Ball, in 1868 she was admitted as the first woman student at École de Médecine, although as a woman she was required to enter lectures through a separate door and sit at the front near the pr... |
8177 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
on transcendence, intellectual and moral,"" as well as ""the incongruity of tone, that hard, schematic, implacable, unyielding, dogmatism that is in itself intrinsically objectionable, whether it comes from the mouth of Ehrenburg, Savonarola—or Ayn Rand."" Other attacks on Rand were penned by G... |
8178 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
views from working for ""National Review"". In 1962, Buckley denounced Robert W. Welch Jr. and the John Birch Society in ""National Review"" as ""far removed from common sense"" and urged the Republican Party to purge itself of Welch's influence. James Jackson Kilpatrick (1920–2010) was a well-... |
8179 | "Lucie Aubrac"
to the Gestapo. Lucie had three children with Raymond. Charles de Gaulle was godfather to their first child, Catherine, and Ho Chi Minh was godfather to their second child, Elizabeth. President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a statement after Raymond's death in 2012, said that Raymond's escape from the Nazis led by... |
8180 | "Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi"
lead to women becoming infertile. Jacobi did not believe this was the case, and to test the idea she collected extensive physiological data on women throughout their menstrual cycle, including muscle strength tests before and after menstruation. She concluded that ""there is nothing in the ... |
8181 | "Thomson Local"
Thomson Local Thomson Local is a local business telephone directory, published up until 2016 in the United Kingdom by Thomson Directories Ltd from its former head office at Thomson House in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is the principal rival (and for the 1980s and some of the 1990s the sole rival) to the ... |
8182 | "Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi"
of their humane feminine values, but Jacobi thought women's contribution to all medical specialties should be considered equivalent to men's. When she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she meticulously documented her own symptoms and published a paper on the subject titled ""Descriptions of... |
8183 | "Thomson Local"
areas, the Thomson Local was first published throughout Great Britain in 1981. It was owned by Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A. of Italy until both companies fell into administration in August 2013. Thomson Local's assets were purchased by telephone data company Corporate Media Partners, preserving more than 3... |
8184 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
support for the overthrow and replacement of leftist governments by nondemocratic forces. Buckley supported Spanish authoritarian dictator General Francisco Franco, who led the rightist military rebellion in its military defeat of the Spanish Republic. He called Franco ""an authentic national h... |
8185 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
Castro."" The Buckley Rule states that ""National Review"" ""will support the rightwardmost viable candidate"" for a given office. Buckley first stated the Buckley Rule during the 1964 Republican primary election featuring Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. Debate within the Republican Par... |
8186 | "Glenn Murcutt"
Testament to his influence internationally was the award of the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, one of the highest distinctions in architecture. In the words of the Pritzker jury: ""In an age obsessed with celebrity, the glitz of our 'starchitects', backed by large staffs and copious public relations ... |
8187 | "Glenn Murcutt"
to the environment and to locality into forthright, totally honest, non-showy works of art."" In 2009 Murcutt won the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Murcutt currently lectures and teaches architectural studies as a professor at the UNSW Faculty of Built Environment. His latest project is a... |
8188 | "Hannibal (film)"
Nick Livesey, a graduate of the Royal College of Art who worked for one of Scott's production companies in London. The sequence, shot in Florence by Livesey himself was intended as the film's second promotional trailer. The studio thought it not ""quite right"", but it remained on Scott's mind and wou... |
8189 | "Hannibal (film)"
is Hannibal Lecter?' Scott explains: ""And of course this story tells it, with pigeons in the cobblestones of somewhere, where you wonder where that is ... and there he is... his face appears."" The titles are said to have been influenced by the film ""Seven"". Ridley Scott worked very closely with co... |
8190 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
even before 1968. Buckley appeared in a series of televised debates with Vidal during the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In their penultimate debate on August 28 of that year, the two disagreed over the actions of the Chicago Poli... |
8191 | "Hannibal (film)"
as the film progressed, according to Zimmer. Dante's sonnet was put to music by Zimmer and Patrick Cassidy for the opera scene in Florence. Tracksounds.com wrote positively of Zimmer's score. ""Zimmer truly crafts a score worthy of most fans' full attention ... the classical elements, and yes, even th... |
8192 | "USS Lizardfish (SS-373)"
arrived at Algiers, La., 1 February and put to sea 5 days later for the Panama Canal and Pearl Harbor, arriving 23 March. ""Lizardfish"" left Pearl Harbor on her first war patrol 9 April 1945. Topping off with fuel at Saipan on the 21st, she set course for the South China Sea. The submarine ma... |
8193 | "USS Lizardfish (SS-373)"
""Lizardfish"" got underway 28 June 1945 on her second patrol in the Java and South China Seas. Throughout this patrol, the submarine sought out targets and carried destruction to the enemy in confined harbors, straits, and anchorages. After careful submerged reconnaissance, she made two darin... |
8194 | "Hannibal (film)"
dare not speak its name"". Composer Hans Zimmer believes there to be ""many"" messages and subtext in each scene of the film. He said, ""I can score this movie truly as a Freudian archetypal beauty and the beast fairy tale, as a horror movie, as the most elegant piece, on corruption in the American po... |
8195 | "Hannibal (film)"
passionately argued about what a single shot meant, where a tear slides down Starling's cheek during a confrontation with Lecter. They could not agree if it was a tear of ""anguish"", ""loneliness"" or ""disgust"". Scott told the ""New York Post"" that, the affair of the heart between Lecter and Starl... |
8196 | "Hannibal (film)"
punishment"". ""There is something very moral about Lecter in this film,"" said Scott in his audio commentary. ""The behaviour of Hannibal is never insane—[I] didn't want to use that excuse. Is he insane? No, I think he's as sane as you or I. He just likes it."" Scott did say, however, ""In our normal... |
8197 | "Hannibal (film)"
Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini), a Florentine policeman who learns ""Dr. Fell""'s true identity and realizes that this knowledge could make him rich. His escalating abandonment of morality allows him to countenance and facilitate the death of a gypsy pickpocket, egged on by the desire to have the best for ... |
8198 | "Hannibal (film)"
cut off her hand in order to free himself. The first trailer appeared in theaters and was made available via the official website in early May 2000, over nine months before the film's release. As the film had only just begun production, footage was used from ""The Silence of the Lambs"". A second trai... |
8199 | "William F. Buckley Jr."
situation is that missions abroad to effect regime change in countries without a bill of rights or democratic tradition are terribly arduous."" He added: ""This isn't to say that the Iraq war is wrong, or that history will judge it to be wrong. But it is absolutely to say that conservatism impl... |
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