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8300 | "Antonio Anderson"
On February 22, 2010, Anderson was signed to his first of two 10-day contracts with the Oklahoma City Thunder. After his second ten-day contract expired, Anderson rejoined the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. He scored two points while appearing in one NBA game during his stint with the Thunder. In 2010, An... |
8301 | "Antonio Anderson"
and returned to the NBA Development League's Maine Red Claws. On December 25, 2011, he was waived by the Red Claws due to injury. In October 2012, he joined the Saint John Mill Rats of Canada. Antonio Anderson Antonio Andrew Anderson (born June 5, 1985) is the head coach at Lynn English High School i... |
8302 | "API testing"
API testing API testing is a type of software testing that involves testing application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security. Since APIs lack a GUI, API testing is performe... |
8303 | Patriottentijd
visit of the Prussian king to his sister at ""Het Loo"" on 12/13 June 1788, again guaranteeing the stadtholderian constitution, and renewing the Anglo-Prussian military alliance. This led to the Triple Alliance that was signed on 13 August 1788 between all three countries. Meanwhile, on 10 July 1788 the ... |
8304 | Patriottentijd
Batavian Republic, was its repeal and ritual burning on 16 February 1795. The stadtholder had already fled to Great Britain with his family. He would never return. Patriottentijd The Patriottentijd (English: Patriot Period) was a period of political instability in the Dutch Republic between approximately... |
8305 | "Robert Blair Kaiser"
Robert Blair Kaiser Robert Blair Kaiser (January 11, 1931 – April 2, 2015) was an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church. Kaiser trained as a Jesuit from 1949 to 1959. He left the order and his intention to be ordained to the priesthood, to become a journ... |
8306 | "Robert Blair Kaiser"
His latest books include ""A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future"" and ""Cardinal Mahony: A Novel"". A new version of his 1970 best seller, ""R.F.K. Must Die!"" was published in 2008, with a new sub-title, ""Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination... |
8307 | "Robert Blair Kaiser"
takebackourchurch.org, a web community of American Catholics seeking ""ownership and citizenship in the people's church envisioned at Vatican II"", Catholic Church Reform International and on the Board of Directors of Catholic Church Reform International. Robert Blair Kaiser Robert Blair Kaiser (J... |
8308 | "Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency)"
Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency) Stockton North is a constituency covering the town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham and other nearby settlements in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees located north of the River Tees, represented in the House of Commons of the UK... |
8309 | "Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency)"
Marsh House, Mile House, Newtown, Northfield, Norton, Portrack and Tilery, Roseworth, St Aidan's, St Cuthbert's, Whitton, and Wolviston. 2010-present: The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees wards of Billingham Central, Billingham East, Billingham North, Billingham South, Billingha... |
8310 | "Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency)"
Rodgers, who had held the seat since 1962. He had been a Labour Party member until 1981, when he left to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The 1983 election was the first since Rodgers had left the Labour Party, and he was narrowly defeated by Labour's Frank Cook. Co... |
8311 | "Richard Luchsinger"
the nervous system, laryngeal trauma, cordectomy, joint disorders, alaryngeal voice, vasomotor effects on vocal fold function, functional dysphonias, contact ulcers, ventricular voice, and psychogenic voice disorders. Luchsinger founded one of the first scholarly journals devoted to the study of vo... |
8312 | "Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)"
Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency) Wansbeck is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Ian Lavery, a member of the Labour Party. 1918-1950: The Urban Districts of Cramlington, Earsdon, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Newburn, Seaton Delaval,... |
8313 | "Adjusted mutual information"
Adjusted mutual information In probability theory and information theory, adjusted mutual information, a variation of mutual information may be used for comparing clusterings. It corrects the effect of agreement solely due to chance between clusterings, similar to the way the adjusted rand... |
8314 | Lautaro
realizing his desire to pursue the military advantage he had just gained. It was only in February 1554 that he succeeded in putting together an army of 8,000 men, just in time to confront a punitive expedition under the command of Francisco de Villagra. Lautaro chose the hill of Marihueñu to fight the Spanish. ... |
8315 | "Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)"
Disaster. This led, with the ministry of Barbara Castle's adjustments, to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 which set up the Health and Safety Executive and remains the foundation of this area of English law. The constituency has been held solely by Labour since its recreati... |
8316 | "Wansbeck (UK Parliament constituency)"
Workless claimants as registered jobseekers, with high male unemployment, which is widespread but exacerbated in the area, in November 2012, was higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 6.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by ""The Guardian"". This was ma... |
8317 | "Careless Memories"
Careless Memories ""Careless Memories"" is the second single by Duran Duran, released on 20 April 1981. The band's debut single ""Planet Earth"" had been a Top 20 hit, so it was regarded as a major setback when ""Careless Memories"" stalled at No. 37 in the UK charts, particularly as it was to heral... |
8318 | "Careless Memories"
""Girls on Film"" and it duly became their first Top 5 hit in the UK. The video was shot in Soho and directed by Perry Haines, who went on to form i-D Magazine. There are two different cuts of this video. The second version, which was included in the ""Duran Duran"" video album released in 1983, fea... |
8319 | Lautaro
sent to Villagra to return to the city from the south. The Spanish forces met in the field, and from a member of the local ethnos, the Picunche, they learned the disposition of Lautaro's camp. At dawn, on April 29, 1557 the ""conquistadors"" launched a surprise attack from the hills of Caune, obtaining a decisi... |
8320 | "Careless Memories"
again shows a shot of the band on stage, lipsynching. The band resurrected the song to play live during their reunion shows in 2004 and 2005. The song was accompanied on video screens behind the stage by a unique anime-style video, featuring stylized versions of the band members fighting giant monst... |
8321 | "Careless Memories"
Bell, the Hurst Street shop Kahn & Bell where Duran Duran (and numerous other clubgoers of the day) shopped for clothes. ""Careless Memories"" is one of three original-era singles that didn't include a remix of the title track (although the fade-out on the 12"" is slightly longer), the other two bei... |
8322 | "Careless Memories"
version is included in the ""Singles Box Set 1981-1985"" but runs to 3:44 as it includes three seconds of silence after the fade out. In Japan, the two b-sides were released on the ""Nite Romantics"" EP, along with night versions of ""Girls on Film"" and ""Planet Earth"". When the song ""Is There So... |
8323 | "Careless Memories"
the Hammersmith Odeon in London was released in 1982 as the b-side to ""Hungry Like The Wolf"". Perhaps due to its poor charting, ""Careless Memories"" was one of the few singles not included in either the """" or ""Greatest"" single compilations. Apart from the single, ""Careless Memories"" has als... |
8324 | "Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)"
Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency) Rochdale is a seat represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It has elected one Member of Parliament (MP) since its 1832 creation. The constituency is represented by Tony Lloyd of the Labour Party. He was first elected MP for ... |
8325 | "Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)"
Healey, Newbold, Norden and Bamford, Smallbridge and Wardleworth, and Spotland. 1997-2010: The Borough of Rochdale wards of Balderstone, Brimrod and Deeplish, Central and Falinge, Healey, Littleborough, Newbold, Smallbridge and Wardleworth, Spotland, and Wardle. 2010-present: The... |
8326 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
team, who had pulled out after the Mumbai attacks. In order to persuade the Sri Lankan team to visit, the Pakistan government offered to give them presidential-style security. The series was the first Test tour of Pakistan since South Africa visited in October 2007. ... |
8327 | "Rochdale (UK Parliament constituency)"
Democrat marginal for many years, although it was held by the Conservatives for part of the 1950s, until a 1958 by-election. It was held for two decades by Cyril Smith, first of the Liberal Party and then of the Liberal Democrats. He won a by-election in 1972, taking the seat fro... |
8328 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
had passed over it. A minivan following the team bus carrying the match referee and umpires was also fired upon and the driver was killed. Simon Taufel, Steve Davis, Nadeem Ghauri, Ahsan Raza, umpires performance manager Peter Manuel, liaison officer Abdul Sami and I... |
8329 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
officer who climbed into the minivan to seek cover drove the minivan to safety. Security cameras captured footage of several gunmen carrying automatic weapons and backpacks, firing on the convoy from the Liberty Square roundabout. They were later seen jogging up the ... |
8330 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
to the stadium and airlifted from the pitch via Pakistan Air Force Mil Mi-17 helicopters, and immediate arrangements were made for the Sri Lankan team to return to Colombo on the next available flight. The second Test, which was the last scheduled fixture of the tour... |
8331 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
Assistant Coach Paul Farbrace was also injured. Although it was reported that Coach Trevor Bayliss also sustained minor injuries, it was later announced that this was incorrect. Reserve umpire Ahsan Raza, who was travelling in a van for the umpires that was following... |
8332 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
Pakistani press blamed Pakistani Islamist militants and Al-Qaeda for the attacks. Police said that kidnapping was a possible motive, but police officials refused to comment on this. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said on 4 March that he could not rul... |
8333 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
mine owners began to search for additional traffic for the summer season. At the same time, new steam ships began bringing tourists to the remote Kintyre peninsula. This led to the formation of the Association of Argyll Railway Co. Ltd. which applied for an order under the L... |
8334 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
eased. The colliery line was also extended west to the new terminus at Machrihanish. The work was completed in 1906 and the railway opened on 18 August 1906. It was an immediate success, attracting 10,000 passengers in its first three weeks of operation and replacing the hor... |
8335 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
trains did run in early 1932, the railway was failing and it abandoned passenger services in May 1932. By November 1933 the railway had been wound up and in May 1934 the last trains ran, assisting in the scrapping of the line. According to Davies both the railway and the col... |
8336 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
June (1928) the Franco British Co. acquired the Argyll colliery and at a Campbeltown Town Council meeting on 13th August, Mr. Maisel, a director, said that gas could be got from a proposed coal distillation plant and bought by the town. A report to the shareholders stated th... |
8337 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
m/t or 2,100 cu ft/short ton] of gas and the residual coke were available from the process. In June 1929 the Franco British Company re-emerged as the Coal Carbonisation Trust and their prospectus mentioned carbonising 1,000 tons [1,016 t or 1120 short tons] of coal per day y... |
8338 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
On 9 August 1910 there was a fatal accident when a train being stabled in the Linecraigs engine sidings collided with an engine already in the sidings. A cleaner, G. Jamieson, engaged in cleaning the standing engine, was knocked down by his engine, run over, and killed. The ... |
8339 | "2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team"
from Madina Colony, Walton Road in Lahore. He was a waiter at a hotel in Rawalpindi, when he was recruited by Sifullah. He went to Miram Shah and was trained in the use of different weapons. Other accused including Samiullah, alias Ejaz of Nankana district, Adnan, al... |
8340 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
in 1907, the second of which had a central luggage compartment. The carriages survived the closure of the line and in 1934 were moved to Trench Point on the other side of Campbeltown Loch where they were used as holiday homes. During the Second World War they were used by th... |
8341 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
for the Gateshead Garden Festival. The colliery railway probably used mine tubs from the collieries' internal lines when it opened in 1876. By 1902, 18 flat four-wheeled wagons were in use, each of which carried four mine ""hutches"". The hutches were small mine tubs each of... |
8342 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
wagons were purchased from Hurst Nelson Ltd. of Motherwell. Like the earlier colliery wagons, these had dumb buffers and centre couplings. Later batches of wagons were built to a 4½ ton design. In all the railway used approximately 150 coal wagons, all owned by the Campbelto... |
8343 | "Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway"
ton wagon but with open spars extending above the sides to provide extra support for carrying milk churns. Finally the railway had a detachable snow plough and a small platelayers' trolley for maintenance work. None of the stations had platforms, however a small wooden shed ... |
8344 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol Joan Derk, Baron van der Capellen tot den Pol (; 2 November 1741, Tiel – 6 June 1784, Zwolle) was a Dutch nobleman who played a prominent role in the revolutionary events that preceded the formation of the Batavian Republic. As a member of ... |
8345 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
an ardent supporter of the legal recognition of the recently created United States of America. Van der Capellen became a member of the States of Overijssel in 1772. It was the beginning of his political career. He described himself as a ""born regent"", but that did not prevent ... |
8346 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
popular. This was partly due to his strategic use of the political press. The press also became a powerful weapon in the hands of Van der Capellen and his patriot friends. As a member of the States Van der Capellen applied himself to the abolition of the so-called ""drostendiens... |
8347 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
abolished in 1631. He ensured his statement was distributed widely and free of charge among the farmers in the Twenthe region. The reverend François Adriaan van der Kemp was his assistant or ghostwriter. In the end he won his case but his fellow members in the States excluded hi... |
8348 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
he could borrow the Scotch Brigade (a unit of Scots in Dutch service) to be deployed in the war with the American Republic, he voted against. His overt support for the American revolutionaries was not appreciated either. Nevertheless, he continued to dedicate himself to the Amer... |
8349 | "Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol"
writings. In 1782 Van der Capellen arranged a loan for the American cause. A consortium was set up by Nicolaas van Staphorst and Wilhelm Willink. Eventually an amount of two hundred thousand guilders was raised. He contributed twenty thousand guilders himself. The year 1781 was ... |
8350 | Nautanki
This is to give audiences an opportunity to watch performances during a break in their daily routine. These contemporary Nautankis have been performed extensively in India and America and met with resounding popularity. Some popular traditional Nautankis are ""Syah-Posh (Pak Mohabbat)"", ""Sultana Daku"", ""In... |
8351 | Nautanki
Kaman District Bharatpur, Pandit Ram Dayal Sharma, Chunni Lal, Puran Lal Sharma, Amarnath, Gulab Bai, and Krishna Kumari. In 2002, Nautanki was introduced in America by Dr. Devendra Sharma, a Nautanki artist, singer, writer, director, and scholar of communication and performance. The participants in Sharma's p... |
8352 | Nautanki
Ram Dayal Sharma that communicates a contemporary and controversial social issue concerning Indians and Indian immigrants in America. It critically examines the phenomenon of some Indian men who come to America to study or work, but go back to India and get married — either because of parental pressure or to g... |
8353 | Nautanki
is bilingual (Hindi and English). This protects the traditional operatic and artistic elements of Nautanki while effectively communicating the story and contemporary social issue to a diverse audience. Nautankis such as ""Mission Suhani"" involving global social issues help to update Nautanki to emerging issue... |
8354 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device The Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device (ETPD) is an experimental physics device housed at the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA. It previously operated as the Electric Tokamak (ET) between 1999 and 2006 and was noted for being the world's largest tokama... |
8355 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
under the direction of principal investigator and designer, Robert Taylor, a UCLA professor. The machine was designed to be a low field (0.25 T) magnetic confinement fusion device with a large aspect ratio. It is composed of 16 vacuum chambers made of 1-inch thick steel, with a major r... |
8356 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
of 45 kiloamperes and can produce a core electron plasma temperature of 300 eV. Four sets of independent coils are necessary for OH (ohmic heating) current drive, vertical equilibrium field, plasma elongation and plasma shaping (D or reverse-D). The OH system provides 10 V·s using a 10... |
8357 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
are located outside the vessel and are constructed out of aluminium. A Rogowski probe outside the vessel and sets of Hall probes inside the vessel are used to monitor plasma current, position and shaping and are used in the control feedback loop. The poloidal system was designed using ... |
8358 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
run out of funding and was decommissioned following the retirement of Taylor. Factors leading to loss of funding are attributed to the lack of extensive plasma diagnostics, its large size, and its place in the politics of fusion. When it was operating, the ET was funded mostly by the D... |
8359 | "Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device"
producing a long column of magnetized plasma (~100 m) that winds itself multiple times along the toroidal axis of the machine. The plasma column was shown to be current-free and terminates on the neutral gas within the chamber without touching the machine walls. The typical operational... |
8360 | "Tramway (industrial)"
Tramway (industrial) Tramways (not to be confused with a system of passenger carrying trams) are lightly laid railways, sometimes worked without locomotives. The term is not in use in North America but in common use in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, where British Railway terminology and pract... |
8361 | "Tramway (industrial)"
They generally do not carry passengers, although staff may make use of them, either officially or unofficially—and are often not meant to be permanent. Tramways can take many forms, sometimes just tracks temporarily laid on the ground to move materials around a factory, mine or quarry. Many, if n... |
8362 | "Tramway (industrial)"
locomotives. The term was originally applied to wagons running on primitive tracks in early England and Europe. The name seems to date from around 1517 and to be derived from an English dialect word for the shaft of a wheelbarrow—in turn from Low German ""traam,"" literally, beam. The tracks them... |
8363 | "Steve Higgins"
toured in the comedy troupe Don't Quit Your Day Job and performed at notable places in Iowa including the Hotel Kirkwood, Corky's, and the Spaghetti Works. They eventually moved to California where they started performing in Los Angeles and soon got their big break on the Comedy Central sketch comedy se... |
8364 | "Ho Feng-Shan"
diplomats leaving their posts without authorization. He did not report to work and he was terminated without a pension. This was the policy when tens of embassies were closed. He returned to his native China and visited his alma mater in Changsha for school's 80th anniversary in 1986. A shadow was cast o... |
8365 | "Ho Feng-Shan"
Ma in Taipei commended Dr. Ho for his service and presented his daughter a certificate of appreciation with Israeli government representatives. Ho Feng-Shan died in San Francisco, California at the age of 96. He was survived by his son, Monto Ho (何曼德), a Chinese-American professional in microbiology, vir... |
8366 | "Tramway (industrial)"
CarGoTram began operating as a cargo tram for the Volkswagen factory in Dresden. In Australia, most ""tramways"" (other than urban street trams) were in practice heavy railways, or equivalent to British light railways, but known as tramways for legal reasons. These include: Tramway (industrial) T... |
8367 | "Darren Ng"
Darren Ng Darren Ng (; born 18 December 1983) is a Chinese-Australian professional basketball player. Ng was known as one of the better three-point shooters in the NBL. He decided to sit out the 2012–13 NBL season for family and career reasons, being a new father and a practising physician as a resident doc... |
8368 | "Darren Ng"
a total of four fully qualified doctors in the Ng family. Born and bred in Adelaide, Ng went to St Peter's College and it was in Year 10 that he decided to pursue a career in medicine. However, he would end up juggling his studies with his career in basketball as he was signed by NBL team the Adelaide 36ers... |
8369 | "Darren Ng"
played with them through to the end of the 2006–07 NBL season, although he did sit out the entire 2005-06 NBL season to pursue his medical studies. Ng signed with the Singapore Slingers for the 2007–08 NBL season and averaged a career high 13.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. The Slingers fol... |
8370 | "Darren Ng"
the leading player in the 2006 ABA Central Conference. On 18 June 2009, it was announced that Ng would make his return to the 36ers. The 2009–10 NBL season saw Ng average 8.6 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game. His 2010–11 season was cut short when he rolled his ankle in a clash with Kirk Penney ... |
8371 | "Darren Ng"
of the 2011–12 season and while seeing limited time on the court has played all 14 of the 36ers games for the season as of 2 January 2012 and is averaging 6 points, 1.6 assists and 0.8 rebounds in 13.9 minutes of game time. He hit a season high 20 points on 8/13 shooting including 4/8 from outside the Three... |
8372 | "John Burke (author)"
the pseudonyms of Joanna Jones, Sara Morris, Jonathan George and Owen Burke. He achieved equal popularity with his science fiction short stories in magazines like ""New Worlds"" and ""New Frontiers"", and the best of these were collected in ""Alien Landscapes"" (1955). His first two SF novels, ""T... |
8373 | "John Burke (author)"
John Osborne's ""The Entertainer"" (1960) and ""Look Back in Anger"" (1960), ""The Angry Silence"" (1960), ""Flame in the Streets"" (1961), ""The Lion of Sparta"" (1961; the film was released as ""The 300 Spartans""), ""The Boys"" (1962), ""The System"" (1963), ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), ""Dr.... |
8374 | "Darren Ng"
with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Ng has been working as a resident doctor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital's Emergency department. Ironically during the 2011–12 pre-season, Ng had to be admitted to the hospital with Pneumonia after games with Sturt and training with the 36ers left him ... |
8375 | KUKC-LD
KUKC-LD KUKC-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 20, is a Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, United States and also serving Kansas City, Kansas. Owned by Media Vista Group, LLC, KUKC-LD maintains office and master control facilities located on West 31st Street in Kansas C... |
8376 | KUKC-LD
(KSMO-TV (channel 62) carried MundoMax on its second digital subchannel before that network's shutdown in late November 2016), and is the only Univision network affiliate in the state of Missouri. The station first signed on the air in 1989 as K29CF; it originally operated as an affiliate of the home shopping n... |
8377 | KUKC-LD
Flintstones"" and ""Mighty Max""). In 2004, the station was purchased by Equity Media Holdings. Shortly after it was finalized, in January 2005, the station became the market's Univision affiliate; reflecting this, its callsign was changed to KUKC-LP (for ""Univision Kansas City""). On December 8, 2008, Equity ... |
8378 | "Shish taouk"
Shish taouk Shish taouk (; ; or ""tavuk şiş""; ) is a traditional marinated chicken shish kebab of Middle Eastern cuisine. It is widely eaten in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Israel. A similar dish in Persian cuisine is the traditional jujeh kabab. It is also serv... |
8379 | "Shish taouk"
adopted in Egyptian Arabic, Lebanese-Arabic and Syrian-Arabic dialects. ""Tavuk"" () comes from old Turkic ""takagu"" and means chicken. The dish consists of cubes of chicken that are marinated, then skewered and grilled. Common marinades are based upon yogurt and lemon juice or tomato puree, though there... |
8380 | "Shish taouk"
sandwich version comes generally in a flatbread or as a dürüm, and frequently accompanied by lettuce, tomatoes, and pickled turnips. In Israeli cuisine it is served with a sumac flavored tahini, fried onions, flatbread/pita and grilled hot chili peppers along with tabbouleh or Israeli salad and pickles (o... |
8381 | "Flag of Ceuta"
Flag of Ceuta The flag of Ceuta is a black and white gyronny with a central escutcheon displaying the municipal coat of arms. (The civil flag omits the escutcheon.) The gyronny is identical to that of the flag of Lisbon, to commemorate the conquest of the city by the Portuguese in 1415. The city was a p... |
8382 | "Flag of Ceuta"
roundels. Flag of Ceuta The flag of Ceuta is a black and white gyronny with a central escutcheon displaying the municipal coat of arms. (The civil flag omits the escutcheon.) The gyronny is identical to that of the flag of Lisbon, to commemorate the conquest of the city by the Portuguese in 1415. The ci... |
8383 | "Près de ma rivière"
Près de ma rivière Près de ma rivière (""Near my river"") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, performed in French by Robert Cogoi. The song was performed fifteenth on the night (following Switzerland's Anita Traversi with ""I miei pensieri"" and preceding Spain's Los TNT wi... |
8384 | "Près de ma rivière"
recorded the song in English, German and Italian language versions, entitled, respectively, ""My River of Memories"", ""Weit, da wo der Strom beginnt"" and ""Sulla mia riviera"". The English version was, however, not released for nearly 30 years after the Contest. It was succeeded as Belgian repr... |
8385 | "Don Q"
Don Q Don Q is a Puerto Rican rum, distilled, manufactured, bottled, and distributed by Destilería Serrallés from its corporate facility in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Don Q, ""Puerto Rico's best-known rum"", is the top-selling rum in Puerto Rico, where over 70% of the rum consumed in the United States is produced. The... |
8386 | "Don Q"
Catalonia to Puerto Rico in the mid-1830s, and established a sugar cane plantation in the outskirts of Ponce. They were successful in harvesting and refining cane sugar and exporting it to the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The plantation became very prosperous, and virtually became a company tow... |
8387 | "Don Q"
year, Juan Serrallés, who would go down as one of the most successful liquor salesmen in Puerto Rican history, imported a still from France, which enabled him to produce his first casks of rum. The Serrallés operation produced various local rum brands, most of which were short-lived. Inspired by the success of ... |
8388 | "Don Q"
opened its distilling operations in Puerto Rico in the early 1930s it was considered a Cuban brand since its headquarters were in Cuba; since the 1960s Cuban revolution, Bacardi has had its headquarters in Bermuda). By the 1960s, Don Q was available on most of Puerto Rico's important supermarket chains, such as... |
8389 | "Don Q"
distilled in a continuous still. Once distilled, the clear spirit is aged in oak barrels for up to a year per Puerto Rican law, adding a golden color and character to the rum. Flavors and spices, if any, are added as an option at this point. The brand’s taste is achieved through a proprietary recipe, which is b... |
8390 | "Don Q"
has been engaged in numerous advertising campaigns for its rums. Television ads have run on Puerto Rican channels for decades, and the brand has sponsored local sports teams, such as Ponce's Leones de Ponce baseball team and their BSN counterpart the Leones de Ponce basketball team. Don Q also has appeared on a... |
8391 | "Don Q"
For example, its Don Q Gran Añejo rum earned one double gold, two silver, and one bronze medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competitions between 2008 and 2012. Also, in 2010, Don Q scored high at the Spirits International Prestige (SIP) Awards, in San Diego, California. Competing against hundreds of rums... |
8392 | Faramir
""athelas"" in the Houses of Healing. During his subsequent recuperation there, Faramir met the Lady Éowyn of Rohan; moved by her sorrow, pride, and beauty, he eventually fell in love with her. At first, Éowyn refused his advances, only desiring to go to war to find honour in death. But soon Éowyn realized that... |
8393 | Faramir
the office, and announced that as long as his line would last, Faramir and his descendants would be Stewards of Gondor. In addition, Aragorn created Faramir Prince of Ithilien and appointed Beregond Captain of Faramir's guard, the White Company. Faramir, as Prince of Ithilien, together with the Prince of Dol Am... |
8394 | Faramir
it of outlaws and Orcs and cleansing Minas Morgul (an old Gondorian city, once named Minas Ithil, that Sauron had taken) of evil remnants. Faramir also fulfilled the traditional role of Steward, acting as the King’s chief counsellor and ruling Gondor in his absence. With Éowyn, he settled in Emyn Arnen, where t... |
8395 | Faramir
Findegil, and appears in ""The Lord of the Rings"" as part of Appendix A. Faramir's personality is prominently described in the appendices to ""The Lord of the Rings"": Tolkien recorded that Faramir greatly resembled Boromir in appearance, who in his turn is described as ""a tall man with a fair and noble face,... |
8396 | Faramir
[ran] nearly true"" in him, which was rare. This trait was elaborated by Tolkien through the speech of Pippin: Faramir’s leadership, skill-in-arms, and swift but hardy judgement proved valuable in battle, and earned him Gondor's respect during the War of the Ring. He defended Gondor from Sauron on many fronts, ... |
8397 | Faramir
the British Army during the First World War and fought in the Battle of the Somme in the latter half of 1916. Tolkien bestowed his dream of ""darkness unescapable"" upon Faramir's character, who relates it to Éowyn in the chapter ""The Steward and the King"" in ""The Return of the King"". Of this, Tolkien wrote... |
8398 | "City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency)"
boundaries adjusted only very slightly, although as elsewhere the franchise was reformed. The Reform Act 1867 extended the boundaries to include part of Framwellgate parish which had previously been excluded. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the borough's represe... |
8399 | Faramir
Gondor often bore names ""remembered in the songs and histories of the First Age"", without paying a special attention to meaning. Thus one Boromir appears in ""The Silmarillion"", and the appendices to ""The Lord of the Rings"" introduce Faramir, son of King Ondoher of Gondor, although in this case the name wa... |
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