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"Cuban macaw" to cropland and pastures. Lomas de Rompe, where the macaw was also reported, had rainforest-like gallery forest. Hunting has been proposed as a factor in the extinction of the Cuban macaw. Parrots were hunted, kept as pets, and traded by Native Americans in the Caribbean before the arrival of Europeans. T...
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"Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG" choice of 6 body colours (Fire Opal solid, Obsidian Black metallic, Elysium Silver metallic, AMG Imola Grey (premium), designo Magno Graphite (matte) (premium), designo Mystic White 2 (premium)), black designo Nappa full leather interior upholstery with silver diamond pattern stitching at door c...
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"Cuban macaw" they nested, although sometimes nestlings were accidentally killed. This practice reduced population numbers and selectively destroyed the species' breeding habitat. This means of collection continues today with the Cuban parakeet (""Psittacara euops"") and the Cuban amazon (""Amazona leucocephala""). A h...
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"Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG" in October. Since its launch in 2010, the SLS AMG GT3 has been competing in GT competitions around the world, such as the FIA GT3 European Championship, Blancpain Endurance Series, Blancpain Sprint Series, VLN, 24 Hours of Nurburgring, British GT Championship, Super GT, Australian GT Championshi...
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"Alex Bruce (footballer, born 1984)" January, but that was his only appearance in January, and he was linked with a move to Los Angeles Galaxy. No move took place, and Bruce made seven more appearances before being released by manager Neil Warnock when his contract expired at the end of the season. Bruce signed a two-y...
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"Plas Bodegroes" Plas Bodegroes Plas Bodegroes is a former Georgian country house which stands in its own grounds near Pwllheli, Gwynedd on the Llŷn Peninsula. The grade II* listed building is now a restaurant. The house was built in 1780 for William Griffith (1748–1816), probably designed by Joseph Bromfield, and prob...
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"Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG" story of an experiment with SLS AMG demonstrating its technical highlights from preparation and test phases to the realisation was produced. The TV ad was premiered on 30 January 2010 on all major television channels with a 60-second roadblock, followed by a 45-second version in reruns until the...
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"Richard Dudman" Richard Dudman Richard Beebe Dudman (May 3, 1918 – August 3, 2017) was an American journalist who spent 31 years with the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" during which time he covered Fidel Castro's insurgency in Cuba, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, ...
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"Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG" featured on the 16th series of ""Top Gear"". The 2013 SLS Roadster was then reviewed two years later. As part of SLS AMG Roadster launch in the UK, a video featuring David Coulthard catching a speeding golf ball hit by professional golfer Jake Shepherd with Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster was pro...
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"Alex Bruce (footballer, born 1984)" was reunited with his childhood friend, the Leeds goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel; their fathers, Steve Bruce and Peter Schmeichel, had played together in the same positions at Manchester United. In December 2010, Bruce was involved in a car crash during a snow storm, but managed to es...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Peter Sinclair (governor) Rear Admiral Peter Ross Sinclair, (born 16 November 1934) is a retired senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy who served as the 35th Governor of New South Wales from 8 August 1990 to 1 March 1996. Born in Manly, New South Wales, he was educated North Sydney Boy...
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"Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno" Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno Ovídio Manuel Barbosa Pequeno (born 5 November 1954) is a São Toméan diplomat, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs on two occasions. He became the Ambassador of São Tomé and Príncipe to the Republic of China (Taiwan) in December 1999, serving in that ...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" retired in 1996 while controversy of Carr's proposed changes of the Governor's role emerged in regard to his successor. Peter Sinclair was born in Manly, New South Wales on 16 November 1934 to Gordon and Dorothy Sinclair. After being educated at North Sydney Boys High School, Sinclair joined...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" the Korean War and the Vietnam War. On 9 May 1957, he married Shirley McLellan. Together they had two daughters, Jann a teacher on the North Shore of Sydney, Kay CEO of a recruitment company and a son, Commodore Peter John Sinclair, who joined the navy and was the commander in charge of the ...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Commanding until 1977, Sinclair soon rose to higher administrative and directive roles in the navy, serving as commander of in 1978, Director of Naval Plans from 1979 to 1980, Director-General of the Military Staff Branch Strategic and International Policy Division Department of Defence from...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Order of Australia (AO) for ""Service to The Royal Australian Navy, particularly as the First Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy"". In 1987 he was appointed Flag Officer Commanding HM Australian Fleet, a position which later changed to Maritime Commander, Australia. During th...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" South Wales. In 1990, the Premier of New South Wales, Nick Greiner, asked Sinclair to coordinate the Flood Relief Operations during the Nyngan and Bogan Shire floods. When his friend and navy colleague, Sir David Martin, resigned his commission as Governor of New South Wales on 7 August 1990...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Queen Elizabeth II and Sinclair was sworn in on 8 August 1990. At his swearing in, Sinclair declared that he and his wife would ""steer a broad course set by Sir David and Lady Martin"". Sinclair later took the advice passed on to him from Martin in his notes: ""The person who is Governor is...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" the first being on 24 March 1991. By the end of his term in 1996 approximately 35,000 people had visited the Vice-regal residence. While initially uncertain of his constitutional role, particularly in regard to the Executive Council, Sinclair decreed that all Ministers of the Crown were requ...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Carr Labor Government took power in 1995, Labor ministers were less ready to accede to Crown scrutiny. Sinclair readily took advice from many sources including Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, fellow state Governors and former NSW Governors, Sir Roden Cutler and Sir James Rowland. At the May 19...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Windsor, agreeing to provide concessions to his electorate in exchange for Windsor's support in confidence and supply motions. Sinclair then reviewed the letters of the agreement to ascertain their legality and then commissioned Greiner as Premier. Greiner then, promising parliamentary and g...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" The former Minister for Education, Terry Metherell, had resigned from the Liberal Party in October 1991, sitting as an independent. The government subsequently created a job for Metherell, a position with the Environment Protection Agency, which he accepted, effectively engineering a vacancy...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Metherell's appointment to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which made findings of corruption. Five days after the findings, on 24 June 1992, Greiner tearfully met with Sinclair at Government House and tendered his resignation. That same day Sinclair commissioned John Fahey as ...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" to introduce a fixed four-year parliamentary term, prompted by the independent's, particularly John Hatton's, desire to prevent Premiers from calling elections whenever it suited them. Fearing an upcoming undeclared 1991 election, Hatton introduced a motion in the Assembly to request the Gov...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" last thing I would want to do would be to politicise the office of the Governor."" In the 1992 Queen's Birthday honours list, Sinclair was invested as a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for ""Service to the Crown as Governor of New South Wales"". Despite speculation that Fahey would ...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" last to swear allegiance to the Queen, a symbolic move intended to contribute the campaign towards the upcoming 1999 Referendum. Carr generated further antagonism between him and Sinclair, as well as public controversy, over his intentions to make the Governor a part-time post that did not r...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" give a more thorough handover than he had in 1990. He communicated to Carr several possible replacements, including Professor Marie Bashir. Carr, wanting to choose the successor himself, turned down Sinclair and chose the former Judge and Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Gord...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" Parliament, Sinclair was furious about the breach of protocol. Sinclair demanded a retraction and apology from Carr and Egan, which he received. Sinclair's last public appearance as Governor was at an Australia Day event at Darling Harbour. The following day, Sinclair signed the order of pro...
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"Peter Sinclair (governor)" the RSL with a life membership, as Chairman of the Council of the Order of Australia from 1996 to 2001, Vice-President of St John Ambulance New South Wales, Deputy Chair of the Newcastle Permanent Building Society, and a Councillor of the ANZAC Health and Medical Research Foundation. In 1992...
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"Cheryl Heuton" You have the ability to just think logically about something to reason things out, and so many people didn’t do that. They would just sort of kind of go along with whatever was the belief that their group had. And I think … my group belief from that kind of upbringing was not to think that way.” Carl Sa...
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"Cheryl Heuton" newspaper job, at age 22, was with the Del Mar News-Press. Heuton later worked for the Blade-Tribune and the Escondido Times-Advocate. Cheryl Heuton and Nick Fallacci created, wrote, and co-produced the television series ""Numb3rs"". ""Numb3rs"" was broadcast on CBS for six seasons, from 2005 to 2010, a...
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"Rose McClendon" Rose McClendon Rose McClendon (August 27, 1884 – July 12, 1936) was a leading African-American Broadway actress of the 1920s. A founder of the Negro People's Theatre, she guided the creation of the Federal Theatre Project's African American theatre units nationwide and briefly co-directed the New York ...
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"Cheryl Heuton" series ""Numb3rs"". In 2007, Heuton and Fallacci and the television series ""Numb3rs"" shared the National Science Board′s Public Service Award for “contributions toward increasing scientific and mathematical literacy on a broad scale”. In 2017, Cheryl Heuton’s Twitter account contained many retweets re...
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"Rose McClendon" character for her in his 1935 play, ""Mulatto"". As a showcase for McClendon, Countee Cullen adapted Euripides' tragedy ""Medea"", working with producer John Houseman, composer Virgil Thomson and production designer Chick Austin. Although the sets and costumes had been ready for months, by the end of 1...
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"James Deakin" and Lyndon B. Johnson entitled ""Lyndon Johnson's Credibility Gap."" He was also critical of the Nixon Administration, which landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. One of his most well-known book was ""Straight Stuff: The Reporters, The White House and the Truth"". Deakin was married...
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"Rose McClendon" In December 1935 McClendon was forced to leave the cast of Langston Hughes's ""Mulatto"" after she became critically ill with pleurisy. McClendon was to have portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's Federal Theatre Project production of ""Macbeth"" (1936), but due to her continuing illness Edna Thomas ...
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"Rose McClendon" at Howard University. The collection is held in the prints and photographs department of Moorland–Spingarn Research Center. In 1950, the estate of McClendon's husband donated her scrapbooks to the New York Public Library. Two volumes dated 1916–34 include newspaper and magazine articles and reviews, pr...
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"Alright, Still" Alright, Still Alright, Still is the debut studio album by English singer Lily Allen. It was released on 13 July 2006 by Regal Recordings. After being rejected by several record labels, Allen signed to London Records, who eventually lost interest in her, leading her to meet production duo Future Cut an...
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"Living Master" of past Masters or Masters out of date as per Sant Mat. Living Master Living Master is a term which distinguishes a living spiritual teacher from one who has already left his physical form (i.e., died.) Certain esoteric spiritual movements, notably Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga, consider a living spirit...
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AppImage AppImage AppImage is a format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. It tries also to allow Linux distribution-agnostic binary software deployment for application developers, also called Upstream packaging. Released first in 2004 under the ...
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AppImage the traditional Linux sense. Instead of putting the application's various files in the distro's appropriate places in the file system, the AppImage file is just the application's compressed image. When it runs, the file is mounted with FUSE. This behavior is consistent with AppImage's predecessors, ""klik"" an...
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AppImage runtime. (Version 2 may use other file system image formats like SquashFS). An AppImage application can be added to a live CD by adding only one file to the live CD. AppImage files are simpler than installing an application. No extraction tools are needed, nor is it necessary to modify the operating system or ...
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AppImage software by typing a URL beginning with codice_1. This downloaded a klik ""recipe"" file, which was used to generate a "".cmg"" file. For main ingredients, usually pre-built "".deb"" packages from Debian Stable repositories were fed into the recipe's "".cmg"" generation process. In this way, one recipe could b...
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AppImage program by simply deleting the .cmg file. A next version, ""klik2"", was in development; and would natively incorporate the FUSE kernel module, but it never reached past the beta stage. Around 2011, the klik project went dormant and the homepage went offline for some time. Simon Peter started a successor proje...
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"Christopher Edmund Broome" on his own, mainly accounts of local fungi from Somerset and Wiltshire. His particular interest was in truffles and truffle-like fungi, but he collected widely and carefully. On his death, his herbarium contained some 40,000 fungal specimens, which are now at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ...
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"Christopher Edmund Broome" truffle-like ""Melanogaster broomeanus"". Christopher Edmund Broome Christopher Edmund Broome (24 July 1812 – 15 November 1886) was a British mycologist. C.E. Broome was born in Berkhamsted, the son of a solicitor. He was privately schooled in Kensington and in 1832 was sent to read for Holy...
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"Hotta Masatoshi" Hotta Masatoshi His father was Hotta Masamori, advisor (""Tairō"") under the previous ""shōgun"", Tokugawa Iemitsu, who committed ""seppuku"" upon Iemitsu's death in 1651. Masatoshi was then adopted by Iemitsu's nurse, Kasuga no Tsubone. He served as personal secretary to the next ""shōgun"", Tokugawa...
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"NABU Network" computer could download software and information content through the cable feed and could upload primitive information back up to the servers. Applications included games, the programming language Logo, news/current events, and rudimentary PC banking/shopping. At its peak, approximately 100 applications ...
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"Hotta Masatoshi" to the ""Soba-yōnin"" (Chamberlains). Masatoshi was not succeeded as ""Tairō"", and much of his power came to be wielded by the ""shōgun"" himself. Hotta Masatoshi His father was Hotta Masamori, advisor (""Tairō"") under the previous ""shōgun"", Tokugawa Iemitsu, who committed ""seppuku"" upon Iemitsu...
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WEMB WEMB WEMB is a radio station which served the Tri-Cities region of Johnson City/Kingsport/Bristol in Tennessee and Bristol in Virginia. The outlet, owned by WEMB, Inc., was licensed to Erwin, Tennessee. The call letters EMB stood for Elvia Meadows Blakemore, wife of Max Blakemore, who built the station over his ph...
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"NABU Network" offline storage, but an optional hard drive could be purchased. The NABU service first became available in 1983 through Ottawa Cablevision and Skyline Cablevision, through the efforts of John Kelly and Bruce Hempell. The project was heavily subsidized by the Canadian government. A major weakness of the O...
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WEMB ownership of the station to be managed by General Manager James Crawford, Production Manager Charles Ray, and Operations Manager Hilda White. True decided the trust was to manage station affairs, with benefits being dealt to True's three adult children, until his eldest daughter turned 50 years old. True's daughte...
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"Critical distance" Critical distance Critical distance is, in acoustics, the distance at which the sound pressure level of the direct sound D and the reverberant sound R are equal when dealing with a directional source. In other words, it is the point in space at which the combined amplitude of all the reflected echoe...
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"Critical distance" the sound source. A reverberant room generates a short critical distance and an acoustically dead (anechoic) room generates a longer critical distance. The calculation of the critical distance for a diffuse approximation of the reverberant field: where formula_3 is the degree of directivity of the s...
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"Bridget Hoffman" Bridget Hoffman Bridget Hoffman is an American actress and writer who has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, usually under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe. Prior to her involvement in anime, she had some on-screen acting roles in film...
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"Bridget Hoffman" in ""El Hazard"", Miaka Yuki in ""Fushigi Yûgi"", Raquel Casull in ""Scrapped Princess"", Fuu Hououji in ""Magic Knight Rayearth"", Shinobu Maehara in ""Love Hina"", and Irisviel von Einzbern in ""Fate/Zero"". She served as the ADR director for the ""Fushigi Yûgi"" series and films, """", and a series...
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"Bridget Hoffman" "".hack//G.U."" series. Hoffman grew up in the Detroit area and graduated from Michigan State. She was a model for the promotional pictures of Sam Raimi's 1981 film ""The Evil Dead"", and has participated in several Josh Becker-directed films and episodes, including ""Running Time"", """" as well as s...
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"Bridget Hoffman" She had a starring guest role as , the Mother of all Monsters, in Raimi's television show """", and would make other appearances in the series. Hoffman has been involved in voiceovers for anime titles. Many of her roles have been under an alias such as Ruby Marlowe, which was her character's name in h...
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"Bridget Hoffman" where she voices Rune Venus, would air regularly on the International Channel. Her voice was not warmly received by critics on Anime News Network who disliked her squealing schoolgirl tone, and high pitch, although Mike Dungan of Mania.com find her direction and acting to be entertaining. She starred ...
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"Bridget Hoffman" and well-done"", while Chris Homer of Fandom Post enjoyed both the English and the Japanese versions. On the DVD extra for the film, Hoffman gave a Q&A about her character. She would also voice title character Lain Iwakura in ""Serial Experiments Lain""; she plays a teenager who is deeply involved in ...
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"Bridget Hoffman" of junior high students who are transported to a fantasy world. Both Rayearth seasons were dubbed into English. In 2001, she worked with Pioneer (now part of Geneon Entertainment) to ADR direct """", a feature film in the ""Oh My Goddess"" franchise in which she also voiced the title character Belldan...
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"Bridget Hoffman" Allen Divers of Anime News Network thought the English cast was suitable and comparable to the Japanese version. Hoffman would later reprise the role of Belldandy in a series of anime shorts called ""The Adventures of Mini-Goddess"", where she also served as its ADR script writer and the ADR director....
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"Bridget Hoffman" Hutton in 2001. In the fantasy adventure ""Scrapped Princess"", Hoffman plays Raquel Casull, the older sister of the title character. Theron Martin of Anime News Network describes her character as initially ditzy but becomes sensible and coldly pragmatic, and that her voice was a particularly good fit...
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"Roy Edwards" Roy Edwards In 1958, at age 21, Edwards backstopped the Whitby Dunlops, Canada's representative, to the World Hockey Championship at Oslo, Norway. He posted a perfect 7–0 record, three shutouts and an 0.86 goals-against average. In 1960 he became property of the Chicago Black Hawks. His name was engraved ...
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"Publishers-Hall Syndicate" national sales director for the syndicate when he left in 1970 to co-found what would become Andrews McMeel Universal. In 1975, Publishers-Hall was (re)named Field Newspaper Syndicate. (Field Enterprises sold the syndicate to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1984; the operation was subse...
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Dromornithidae Dromornithidae Dromornithidae (the dromornithids), also commonly referred to as mihirungs, thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs. All are now extinct. They were long classified in Struthioniformes, but are now usually ...
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"Lusatian Lake District" district is an area 80 kilometres from east to west and, depending on the boundary chosen, 32 to 40 kilometres from north to south. A distinction is made between the German terms ""Seenland"" (""lake district"") and ""Seenkette"" (""chain of lakes""). The ""Lusatian Lake Chain"" (""Lausitzer Se...
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"Lusatian Lake District" and electricity. With the reunification of Germany in 1990, it was decided to end this long tradition because of the dwindling quantity of lignite and the heavy pollution of the surrounding environment. Although mining continues and some big power stations continue to produce electricity with l...
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"Lusatian Lake District" Plateau in Mecklenburg or the Masurian Lakeland in Poland. It all began with the creation of the ""Knappensee"" and ""Lake Senftenberg"", still one of the biggest lakes in the region. Further lakes have already been established, and plans for over twenty more large lakes have been drawn up. Lak...
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"Lusatian Lake District" city of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia. Lusatian Lake District The Lusatian Lake District (, , ) is a chain of artificial lakes being constructed in Germany across the north-eastern part of Saxony and the southern part of Brandenburg. Through flooding as a part of an extensive regeneration programme,...
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"1988 French legislative election" 1988 French legislative election French legislative elections took place on 5 June and 12 June 1988, to elect the ninth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, one month after the re-election of François Mitterrand as President of France. In 1986, the Socialist Party (PS) of Presiden...
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"Kari Eloranta" he was a three-time Olympian and was a member of Finland's silver medal-winning squad at the 1988 Winter Games. Kari Eloranta Kari Pekka Eloranta (born February 29, 1956) is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player who played over 20 years in numerous leagues throughout Europe and North America. ...
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"Bell AH-1Z Viper" Bell AH-1Z Viper The Bell AH-1Z Viper is an American twin-engine attack helicopter, based on the AH-1W SuperCobra, that was developed for the United States Marine Corps as part of the H-1 upgrade program. The AH-1Z features a four-blade, bearingless, composite main rotor system, uprated transmission,...
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"Bell AH-1Z Viper" four-blade main rotor system from the Bell 412. This helicopter demonstrated Bell's ""Cobra II"" design at the Farnborough Airshow in 1980. The Cobra II was to be equipped with Hellfire missiles, a new targeting system and improved engines. Later came the Cobra 2000 proposal which included General El...
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"The Fantastic Flying Journey" The Fantastic Flying Journey The Fantastic Flying Journey () is a children's book written by Gerald Durrell. It is a story about three children and their great-uncle Lancelot travelling around the world in a hot air balloon. It was published by Conran Octopus, in 1987. It is illustrated b...
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"Bell AH-1Z Viper" test team during the engineering manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the H-1 program. The AH-1Z program progressed slowly from 1996 to 2003 largely as a research and development operation. The existing two-blade semi-rigid, teetering rotor system is being replaced with a four-blade, hingeless, b...
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"The Fantastic Flying Journey" purchase at Amazon.com One day, a hot air balloon attached to a huge straw house, lands in the garden of the Dollybutts. The fat old man who owns it is Great-Uncle Lancelot. He tells Mrs Dollybutt and her three children that he is going to find his brother, Perceval, who is lost in the ju...
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"The Fantastic Flying Journey" their way, they meet several animals which they can talk to (because of the dust), such as a swallow, a camel and a fennec fox, who tell them many interesting facts about their lives. In the jungle, the gorillas tell them that Perceval left for South Africa, to meet some elephants. Lancel...
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Dromornithidae far not been identified. Growing and maintaining such a large head would be detrimental and probably not occur unless it provided a substantial benefit of some sort, although it may have just been a social signal. However, it would require a highly developed or complex social structure to evolve. It has ...
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"Ik heb zorgen" Ik heb zorgen ""Ik heb zorgen"" (""I have worries"") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, performed in Dutch by Louis Neefs. The song was performed tenth on the night (following Germany's Inge Brück with ""Anouschka"" and preceding the United Kingdom's Sandie Shaw with ""Puppet on ...
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Dromornithidae discovered in Tasmania and Western Australia. At some Northern Territory sites they are very common, sometimes comprising 60-70% of the fossil material. A fragment of a dromornithid-sized foot bone has been found in Antarctica, but whether it represents these birds is uncertain. The earliest bones identi...
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"Ik heb zorgen" reviendras"". Ik heb zorgen ""Ik heb zorgen"" (""I have worries"") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, performed in Dutch by Louis Neefs. The song was performed tenth on the night (following Germany's Inge Brück with ""Anouschka"" and preceding the United Kingdom's Sandie Shaw wit...
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Dromornithidae of all of these factors contributed to the megafauna's demise. However, there is significant disagreement about the relative importance of each. The most recent species, ""Genyornis newtoni"", was certainly known to Aborigines during the Late Pleistocene. Cave paintings thought to depict this bird are kn...
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"Los Angeles Times Syndicate" name was changed to the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and was operated as a department of the ""Los Angeles Times"" newspaper. Rex Barley was manager of the syndicate from 1950 until at least 1968. The syndicate acquired the New York City-based independent syndicate General Features Corp. i...
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"Los Angeles Times Syndicate" division of Tribune Media Services. Neither iteration of the syndicate ever produced a breakout comic strip; the most successful strips — ""Napoleon and Uncle Elby"", ""Mr. Tweedy"" — tended to be inherited from other syndicates. Most Mirror Enterprise strips didn't last more than two or t...
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"Los Angeles Times Syndicate" year in syndication. The most popular strips that originated with the L.A. Times Syndicate were Ed Nofziger's ""Animalogic"" (11 years in syndication) and Lee Nordling's ""Sherman on the Mount"" (9 years). The syndicate also distributed Lou Grant's editorial cartoons from the 1950s through...
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"Book of Love (2004 film)" Book of Love (2004 film) Book of Love is a 2004 film written and directed by Alan Brown. It stars Frances O'Connor, Simon Baker, and Gregory Smith. A young woman named Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and her husband, David Walker (Simon Baker) meet a lonely fifteen-year-old, Chet Becker, (Gregory S...
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"Book of Love (2004 film)" larger role. Book of Love (2004 film) Book of Love is a 2004 film written and directed by Alan Brown. It stars Frances O'Connor, Simon Baker, and Gregory Smith. A young woman named Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and her husband, David Walker (Simon Baker) meet a lonely fifteen-year-old, Chet Becke...
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"David Martin (governor)" Royal Australian Navy. Martin was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1988, shortly before being appointed the Governor of New South Wales. Following his appointment as Governor of New South Wales, Martin set about establishing a relationship betwe...
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"David Martin (governor)" young homeless and disadvantaged Australians. Sir David died on 10 August 1990 of pleural mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer caused by asbestos, to which he was exposed during his naval career. He engendered much respect and sympathy when seen struggling for breath during the final days ...
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"David Martin (governor)" Martin Reserve"" in his honour. David Martin (governor) Rear Admiral Sir David James Martin, (15 April 1933 – 10 August 1990) was a senior officer of the Royal Australian Navy and later Governor of New South Wales. He also established the Sir David Martin Foundation to assist young Australians...
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"Communist Workers Organisation (Netherlands)" Communist Workers Organisation (Netherlands) The Communist Workers Organisation (, or KAO) was a communist group in the Netherlands. It was founded as the Marxist-Leninist Rotterdam Group (""Groep Rotterdam marxistisch-leninistisch"" in March 1972 by a group of dissidents ...
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"Communist Workers Organisation (Netherlands)" had 17 members in 1972. In 1974 KKR(ml) renamed itself to the Communist Organisation of Rotterdam and Surroundings (marxist-leninist) (""Kommunistische Organisatie Rotterdam en Omstreken (marxistisch-leninistisch)"", abbreviated KORO(ml)). The following year the name of th...
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"B-cell activating factor" (transmembrane activator and calcium modulator and cyclophilin ligand interactor), and BCMA (B-cell maturation antigen), all of which have differing binding affinities for it. These receptors are expressed mainly on mature B lymphocytes and their expression varies in dependence of B cell matu...
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"B-cell activating factor" to varying degrees. Signaling through BAFF-R and BCMA stimulates B lymphocytes to undergo proliferation and to counter apoptosis. All these ligands act as homotrimers (i.e. three of the same molecule) interacting with homotrimeric receptors, although BAFF has been known to be active as either...
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"B-cell activating factor" it is important for a B-cell survival. Human BLyS has been expressed and purified in E. Coli. The BLyS protein in the engineered bacteria can be as much as 50% to the bacteria's total protein content and still retains activity after a purification procedure. As an immunostimulant, BAFF (BLyS,...
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"B-cell activating factor" correlates with enhanced humoral immunity against malaria infection. Belimumab (Benlysta) is a monoclonal antibody developed by Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline, with significant discovery input by Cambridge Antibody Technology, which specifically recognizes and inhibits the biologic...
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"Jennifer Jennings" in England. She contacted Louis Neefs and he invited her over to a concert, after which they kept in touch. Neefs also recorded the song in French, English, German, Spanish and Italian language versions, all with the original title; ""Jennifer Jennings"". It was succeeded as Belgian representative a...
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Maiao Maiao Mai'ao is an island formation located southwest of Mo'orea and one of the Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent) in French Polynesia. The island formation consists of one high island with a peak elevation of 154 meters (505') and a low island (or motu) that winds along the base of the high island. The form...
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Maiao the commune (municipality) of Mo'orea-Mai'ao, itself in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands. Maiao Mai'ao is an island formation located southwest of Mo'orea and one of the Windward Islands (French: Îles du Vent) in French Polynesia. The island formation consists of one high island with a peak ...